The Bomb Disposal O.B.E. group of nine awards to Squadron Leader Arthur Courtenay Snow, R.A.F.: The

The Bomb Disposal O.B.E. group of nine awards to Squadron Leader Arthur Courtenay Snow, R.A.F.: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (military division), Officer's Breast Badge (O.B.E.); 1914 Star and bar (28234 CPL A. C. SNOW. R.E.); British War Medal 1914-20 and Victory Medal (28234 CPL A. C. SNOW. R.E.); 1939-45 Star, Africa Star and France and Germany Star (06135 S/LDR. A C. SNOW R.A.F.), privately engraved; Defence Medal and War Medal 1939-45 (06135 S/LDR. A. C. SNOW. R.A.F.), impressed naming (the War Medal with possible alteration to name); display mounted, good very fine. [9]

Arthur Courtenay Snow enlisted in the Royal Engineers in Aug 1914 before being appointed to a commission in the RNAS in November 1916. He was then transferred to the RNVR in February 1917 and then to the RAF in April 1918. He was created OBE whilst serving as command bomb disposal officer in the Middle East in 1942 for defusing a new type of mine and for dealing with several other incidents involving unexploded bombs.