Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War M.B.E. group of six awarded to Mr. S. Bayliss, Chief Warden, Bristol Civil Defence Corps, late Private, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals (74083 Pte. S. Bayliss. R.A.M.C.); Defence Medal; Coronation 1953; Civil Defence Long Service Medal, E.II.R., British issue, unnamed as issued; together with a school attendance medal from St. Michael’s Handsworth Day Schools named to Sidney Bayliss and dated 1900, in case of issue, good very fine or better (6) £140-£180

M.B.E. London Gazette 9 June 1955.

Sidney Bayliss was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire in 1894. He served with the 139th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps in France during the Great War. His unit saw action on the Somme at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette and the Battle of the Transloy Ridges and he was himself hospitalised in August and December 1916.

Bayliss trained as a warden in Bristol in 1938 and was attached to a warden’s post in the Clifton Division. He was appointed deputy divisional warden in 1940 and divisional warden in 1942. In 1950 he became Chief Warden of Bristol Civil Defence Corps and he received his M.B.E in 1955 in respect of these services. He died in Bristol in 1970.

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