Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant J. Tayler, Royal Engineers, late Royal Naval Air Service

1914-15 Star (F. 1438 J. Tayler, P.O.M., R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. Tayler), contact marks and polished, nearly very fine (3) £70-90

John Tayler, who was born in Portsmouth in May 1892 and by profession an Engineer, enrolled in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Petty Officer Mechanic in November 1914. Having then served out in France from April to October 1915 - his service record is stamped ‘For Service in Land Operations - he was commissioned as a Probationary Flight Sub. Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service in the latter month. Posted to Eastchurch for pilot training, he was grounded in February 1916 owing to suffering from cramp while flying, as a result of which he applied for a commission in the Hampshire (Fortress) Royal Engineers in Portsmouth that May. Duly commissioned in the R.E., he was demobilised in January 1920; sold with copied R.N.V.R. service record and application for commission papers.