Pembrokeshire pilot Sir Frederick Tymms's haul goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s

Medals and memorabilia belonging to a distinguished son of Pembrokeshire are to go under the auctioneer’s hammer in London today (Thursday).
Tenby-born Sir Frederick Tymms, who died in 1987 at the age of 98, was a legendary figure in the aviation world, making his name through military, exploration and civil flying.
The medals are the Order of the Indian Empire and the Military Cross group of 11. They will be sold at Sotheby’s on behalf of a ‘family source’, a spokesman for the company said this week.
Sir Frederick volunteered for the Royal Flying Corps as an observer in the First World War and went on to work for the Air Ministry, later being appointed Superintendent and Civil Air Traffic Officer for the Cairo to Karachi route.
In the 1930s and 1940s, he served as director of Civil Aviation India, where he overcame opposition from the Indian government to extend the Imperial Airways route through to Australia.
He was a founder member and Master of the Company of Air Pilots and Navigators and served as UK representative on the International Civil Aviation Organisation Council in Montreal before his retirement in 1955.
His early career in aviation also saw him taking part in an attempt to fly a bomber from London to Cape Town in 1920, and he also commanded the air section of an Arctic expedition to Spitzbergen, where the survey plane reached the furthest point north of any aircraft up to that time.
01/12/11 Western Telegraph

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Categories: Foreign Dec 2011