Combining UNION ALL and ORDER BY in Firebird

Question

This is my first attempt at answering my own question, since someone may well run into this and so it might be of help. Using Firebird, I want to combine the results of two

Answer 1

In Firebird 1.5 this works for me

create view V1 (C1, C2, C3) as
  select C1, C2, C3 from T1
  union all 
  select C1, C2, C3 from T2

and then

select C1, C2, C3 from V1 order by C3