WW1 RFC Pilot Officer`s Sam Browne Belt (Wounded in Action)

A nice example Sam Browne belt that was worn by 2nd Lieutenant Roger Ernle Money- Kyrle during his flying service in the Royal Flying Corps during the Great War.
R.E.Money-Kyrle came from a very affluent Wiltshire family and was educated at Eton college from the age of ten (after the death of his father Major Audley Money-Kyrle.
Aged 18 Roger Ernle applied to join the RFC and was commissioned in April 1917, on the 11th of July that same year whilst flying in a combat offensive over enemy lines that he encountered engine trouble, he later crashed and over turned in a cornfield.
The next day he was once more taking part in a combat offensive over enemy territory and this time he received gun/rifle shot wounds in both legs but managed to return to base where he crashed upon landing, that day he flew a Nieuport Scout no.B3484.
Much of the above information is to be found on the excellent airhistory.org.uk website.
He survived the war and returned to his studies later becoming a highly renowned psycho-analyst and being the last person to be analysed by Sigmund Freud, later served in WW2.
The un-dated belt was acquired along with an earlier pre-WW1 Wiltshire regiment uniform that Money-Kyrle owned but I have been unable to link him directly to the regiment so I suspect the uniform is from another family member, still under research, the actual belt was worn by Roger Ernle as it bears his name though only the intials R.E are just about discernible along with the letters RFC (very faint).
Images of the uniform bearing his name tag can be seen in the additional images (uniform listed shortly).

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