Important Batte of Britain medals awarded to spitfire ace fetch £110,000 at Dix Noonan Webb
It was bought by an UK collector of outstanding gallantry awards.
LONDON
.- Spitfire Ace, Group Captain C. B. F. Kingcome of the Royal Air Force was one of the outstanding characters of the Battle of Britain and his group of seven medals including a 1942 D.S.O and 1940 D.F.C. was sold by Dix Noonan Webb for £110,000 in their auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria Wednesday, May 19, 2021. It was bought by an UK collector of outstanding gallantry awards.
Charles Brian Fabris Kingcome was born in Calcutta, India in 1917 and educated at Bedford School. He was one of the outstanding characters of the Battle of Britain, who, during its height, led 92 Squadron with great success from Biggin Hill. Shot down and hospitalised in October 1940, he returned to fly with the squadron until appointed to the command of 72 Squadron in February 1942, leading them as the fighter escort of