Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Lieutenant J. W. Tayler, Royal Army Service Corps, late Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Engineers

1914-15 Star (F.1438 P.O.M., R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Lieut., R.A.S.C.) nearly very fine and better (4) £200-250

Part ex DNW 11 Dec 2013, lot 1431.

John Wilson Tayler was born in Portsmouth on 7 May 1892 and was educated at St. Helens College Portsmouth. An Engineer by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Petty Officer Mechanic on 10 October 1914. Having then served out in France from April to October 1915 with Armoured Cars - 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, 8 November 1915. Posted to Eastchurch for pilot training, he was grounded in February 1916 owing to suffering from cramp while flying. As a result of this, being unsuitable as an aeroplane pilot, he applied for a commission in the 2nd/4th Electric Lights Company, Hampshire (Fortress) Royal Engineers in Portsmouth that May. Duly commissioned in the R.E., Lieutenant, 4 December 1917, later he transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps, 21 July 1920, serving Post War in Waziristan in small MT detachments often with only 3 officers and 7 men. Posted to 28 MT Rhine Army Supply Depot, British Army of the Rhine, 4 September 1926; transferred to the Indian Army Service Corps, 30 January 1928 and released from them 25 February 1933. He died in Surrey in 1984. Sold with copied record, rolls etc.