Auction No. 30 Saturday, 27 November 2021 / 2:00 pm start
Sir Keith Smith formal portrait photo in RAF ...
Estimate $190
Realised: $420 plus premium
Category: Miscellaneous > Australian Aviation Heritage
Lot Details
Sir Keith Smith formal portrait photo in RAF uniform. Signed by him across shoulder & in original contemporary wood frame. VG cond. Keith Smith was the only member of the Smith crew not to serve with No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, during WWI. After being rejected for service on medical grounds in Adelaide, he paid his own way to London & signed up with the RFC serving out the final year of the war as an aviation instructor in the skies over England.
