Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Leading Mechanic E. W. R. Traviss, M.B.E., Royal Naval Air Service
British War and Victory Medals (F.6605 E. W. R. Traviss. L.M. R.N.A.S.) VM officially re-impressed, good very fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (F.6012 J. H. Tunnard. P.O.M. R.N.A.S.; 207127. 1.A.M. H. D. Emblin. R.A.F.) good very fine (4) £80-£100

M.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 8 June 1939: Eric Wilfred Robert Traviss, Esq., Senior Staff Officer, Air Ministry.

Eric Wilfred Robert Traviss was born in Willesden, London, on 4 July 1894. A Civil Servant, he enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service for hostilities only on 16 July 1915, and served in the Kite Balloon ship H.M.S. Canning from 1 October 1915 to 27 May 1916, and then in the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Ark Royal from 28 May 1916 to 25 November 1917, being advanced Leading Mechanic on 1 August 1917. He transferred to the Royal Air Force as a Founder Member on 1 April 1918. Returning to the Civil Service post-War, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1939 Birthday Honours’ List whilst employed as a Senior Staff Officer at the Air Ministry.

John Howard Tunnard was born in Sheffield on 27 August 1885 and joined the Royal Naval Air Service for hostilities only on 28 June 1915. Promoted Petty Officer Mechanic on 1 August 1916, he was found accidentally drowned at the Aircraft Depot, Dunkirk, on 11 June 1917. He is buried in Dunkirk Town Cemetery, France.

Harold Darton Emblin was born in Clapham, London, on 26 July 1893; a driver by trade he enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service for hostilities only on 31 July 1915, serving at President II and Daedalus, transferring to the Royal Air Force as a Founder Member on 1 April 1918. He is not entitled to a Victory Medal. As a bus driver in civilian life, Emblin was involved in the accidental death of a Corporal of the Canadian Military Mounted Police at Shorncliffe on Good Friday 1915, being exonerated of all blame.

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