Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (6679 Bandmaster J. Amers. Devon: Regt.) minor edge bruise, polished, therefore nearly very fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Musicians formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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John Henry Amers was born in 1866 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and attested for the 16th Lancers on 19 August 1885. He transferred to the 2nd Life Guards, and was appointed Bandmaster to the 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment on 9 June 1901. Awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 75 of 1904, he was appointed Bandmaster at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, on 6 October 1914, and served with them throughout the Great War, before transferring to the Royal Air Force as Director of Music on 21 July 1918. He went to France on 25 January 1919 (entitled to a British War Medal only), and continued with the Royal Air Force with the rank of Flight Lieutenant. Appointed a Member of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours’ List of 1926 (London Gazette 3 July 1926), he retired on 31 August 1931. He was subsequently appointed Director of Music to the Metropolitan Police on 1 January 1935, and retired on 31 December 1944. He died in 1946.