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Saint George: Memorial to Lt. Francis L. Mond RFA RAF Saint George: Memorial to Lt. Francis L. Mond RFA RAF

Saint George: Memorial to Lt. Francis L. Mond RFA RAF

Sir George Frampton

Art Funded
1985
Dimensions
57.5 x 21 x 14 cm
Art Fund grant
£5,000 (Total: £8,635)
Vendor
Armstrong-Davis Gallery
Saint George stands in full armour, holding a shield and a staff with a banner but his head is bowed in mourning for Francis Mond, an RAF lieutenant aged 22 who was killed in an air fight over Northern France on 15 May 1918.

The banner obverse: badge of the RAF within a laurel wreath bearing the motto: Per Ardua ad Astra; reverse: badge of the Australian Commonwealth Forces within a laurel wreath bearing the motto 'Advance Australia'.

Provenance

Emil & Angela Mond.

Bronze mounted on green marble block

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1 . Saint George: Memorial to Lt. Francis L. Mond RFA RAF

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