Lot 763
A DEVON OFFICERS TRIO etc.
A 1914/15 Star named to 2 Lieut C T S Mendl. British war & Victory Medals named to Lt C T S Mendl. A miniature mounted group of medals including a 1914/15 trio and 1939/45 Star also Defence & War Medals.
Incorrectly stated as C J S on his MIC, he served in France from August 3rd 1915 in the 1st Devons. Later served as an Intelligence officer with the Intelligence Corps.
His medal addresses in 1921 were 17 Hyde Park Street W2 and Baycote. Lingfield. Surrey.
Lt 3rd Devons on Special Appointment 1/7/1917.
Special appointment to the War Office Class HH in June 1918.
Also believed to have served with the RFC as a Balloon Officer 1917-18. Attached RAF. Intelligence 1918-19 and during W W 11.
The son of Sir S F Mendl KBE of 12 Cumberland Mansions, Bryanston Square. Charles Thomas Sigismund Mendl was educated at University College, Oxford, he married in 1917 Beryl Althea Thomas.
Balloon Officer 1917. Balloon Commander July 1917.
RAFR 12th Sept 1939 Pilot Officer (Prob). F Off in November 1940.
In October 1914 he was an Interpreter with the Northamptonshire Yeomanry. Injured when his horse fell on ice, near La Bassee. UK for Hospitalisation.
Resigned his commission in Jan 1915, granted a commission 3rd Battn Devonshire Regt February 1915. Returned to France August 1915.
With many copies of his injuries and Surgeons assessment , etc.
