Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The original Flying Log Book appertaining to 2nd Lieutenant A. T. Taylor, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, comprising Pilot’s Flying Log Book (Army Book 425), the cover inscribed to ‘A. T. Taylor, 2nd Lieut., R.A.F.’, with pilot training entries covering the period February to August 1918, mainly in D.H. 6s and R.E. 8s, together with an original portrait photograph, generally in excellent condition (Lot) £140-160

Alfred Thomas Taylor, who was born in February 1889, originally enlisted in the Army Service Corps and went out to France as a Private in late April 1915. Transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in late 1917, he commenced pilot training and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in January 1918. He does not, however, appear to have served overseas as a pilot, and the last entry in his Flying Log Book a good two months before the end of hostilities might indicate that he was injured in a flying accident.