The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

A Great War M.B.E. pair awarded to Second Lieutenant E. M. L. Ainslie, 1st/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, later Major, Royal Air Force, who was also twice Mentioned in Despatches
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. E. M. L. Ainslie. Midd’x R.) nearly extremely fine

Pair: Miss Audrey Charlesworth, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps
British War and Victory Medals (A. Charlesworth. F.A.N.Y.C.) nearly extremely fine

Pair: Miss A. Mary Charlesworth, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps
British War and Victory Medals (A. M. Charlesworth. F.A.N.Y.C.) nearly extremely fine

Pair: Miss Evelyn Charlesworth, Voluntary Aid Detachment
British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (E. Charlesworth. V.A.D.); together with the recipient’s two card identity tags ‘Miss Charlsworth. E. V.A.D. C. of E.’, and silver identity bracelet ‘E. Charlesworth V.A.D. B.R.C.S. Marnhull Dorcet,’ nearly extremely fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (2-Lieut. M. Charlesworth.) good very fine (9) £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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M.B.E. (Civil Division) London Gazette 7 June 1918; transferred to Military Division London Gazette 15 April 1919:
‘Controller of a Reception Park, Aeroplane Supply Depot, Royal Air Force’.

Eustace Montague Lafone Ainslie was born on 25 July 1892, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment on 23 September 1914. He served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 March 1915. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a Flying Officer on 19 February 1916, and on 15 November 1917 was appointed Park Commander of No. 1 Aeroplane Supply Depot, with the rank of temporary Major. For his services during the Great War he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 15 May 1917 and 31 December 1918)

In 1919 Ainslie married Miss Audrey Charlesworth, who had served during the Great War with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps, in 1919. Her sisters Mary ands Evelyn had also served during the Great War, as had her brother, Second Lieutenant M. Charlesworth, in the Yorkshire Hussars.