Air Force Cross awarded to Major Oliver 'Stewpot' Stewart, Royal Flying Corps, 1918

The Air Force Cross (AFC) was established in 1918 and awarded to warrant officers and officers for 'an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying, though not in active operations against the enemy'.

Stewart served with 2/9th Battalion The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1915, receiving his Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate on a Maurice Farman biplane at Military School, Thetford, in March 1916. Serving with 54 Squadron, flying the Sopwith Pup in 1917, he was credited with despatching five German aircraft, qualifying him as an ace.

From a medal group awarded to Major Oliver Stewart, Royal Flying Corps.