Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private R. B. Emery, Liverpool Regiment, later Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, and Sudan Civil Service, who was awarded the Egyptian Order of the Nile Fifth Class

1914-15 Star (3753 Pte. R. B. Emery. L’pool R.); British War and Victory Medals (3753 Pte. R. B. Emery. L’pool R.) mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £80-£100

Reginald Bailey Emery was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, on 13 October 1899 and attested for the 8th (Irish) Battalion, Liverpool Regiment (Territorial Force) at Liverpool on 18 January 1915, stating his age to be 19 years and 3 months. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 28 June 1915, before being discharged on account of his true age on 17 November 1915. He subsequently joined the Royal Flying Corps on 26 November 1917, and transferred to the Royal Air Force as a Founder Member on 1 April 1918. Commissioned Pilot, he was demobilised on 21 June 1919.

Emery subsequently joined the Sudan Civil Service on 8 October 1921, and was awarded the Egyptian Order of the Nile, Fifth Class, in 1935, whilst holding the appointment of Superintendent of Accounts in the Customs Department (London Gazette 25 June 1935). Emigrating to Australia, he married Edith Wellspacher, the well-known architect, in Hobart, Tasmania, on 18 August 1939. He saw further service at home with the Australian Army during the Second World War, and died in 1980.

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