An Order of St. John pair awarded to Sergeant W. T. Aviolet, St. John Ambulance...

An Order of St. John pair awarded to Sergeant W. T. Aviolet, St. John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 3rd (wartime) skeletal issue, silver; Service Medal of the Order of St John, with Four Additional Award Bars (7772 Sgt. W. T. Aviolet Cty. Of Exeter Div. No. 9 Dist. S.J.A.B 1929.) mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £60-£80 --- William Thomas Aviolet was born in Worthing, Sussex in 1875 and having moved with his family to Exeter he followed his father into the jewellery trade. Obtaining his first certificate from The Order of St John Ambulance Brigade in 1909 he volunteered as an Orderly with the British Red Cross (Devon VAD 25) at the Exeter War Hospital in October 1914. He is recorded as having given medical demonstrations to students at University College of the South West during the Great War, and his Great War part time service was terminated on 20 January 1919. Promoted Sergeant in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Exeter, on 20 April 1929, he was awarded his St John Service medal the same year. Later appointed Assistant Treasurer St John Ambulance Brigade, Exeter he was admitted as a Serving Brother of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem on 6 March 1947 (London Gazette 8 July 1947). He died at Exeter on 12 January 1960, aged 84. Sold with the recipient’s two riband bars; and copied research.