Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (Capt. A. D. Makins. R.A.F.; 2. Lieut G. Jennings. R.A.F.; 212076 Cpl. T. C. Taylor. R.A.F.) generally very fine (3) £100-£140

Arthur Makins first served as a Corporal (number 1522) with the 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) and sailed with them to Egypt on 29 September 1914 arriving on 5 November 1914 (entitled to the 1914-15 Star as Corporal). He would have served with them at Gallipoli and at some point was promoted to Staff Quarter Master Sergeant with regimental number 115056. He was commissioned into the 3/1st Hertfordshire Yeomanry on 28 July 1916, and joined the Royal Flying Corps on 17 February 1917 when the Hertfordshire Yeomanry was absorbed into the 6th Reserve Cavalry Regiment at Tidworth; he subsequently rose to the rank of Captain with the Royal Air Force.

Thomas Cyril Taylor of Meltham, near Huddersfield in Yorkshire was born on 9 August 1892 joining the Royal Navy on 17 February 1916 as an Air Mechanic 1st Grade with the Royal Naval Air Service, and served during the Great War at a variety of shore establishments including H.M.S. Daedalus (the R.N.A.S. Air Station at Lee-on-Solent). He was promoted to Leading Mechanic on 1 February 1918 and then discharged from the Royal Navy on 31 March 1918 to join the newly formed Royal Air Force the following day, being promoted to Corporal Mechanic and serving first with 4 Squadron and then with 6 Squadron. He was to die whilst on leave on 29 November 1918 and is commemorated on a special memorial in the Meltham Methodist Chapel Yard.