Pair: Trumpet-Major C. Taylor, Edinburgh Artillery Militia, late 7th Hussars

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (707 Trumpeter, 7th Hussars); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (707 Trumpet Maj., 7th Hussars), with riband buckle wearing bar, the first with officially corrected number, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise about very fine or better (2) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to Trumpeters from the Collection of Roderick Cassidy.

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Craven Taylor was born at Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire and enlisted in the 7th Hussars at Manchester in January 1859. Appointed a Trumpeter in February 1861, he went on to witness active service on the North West Frontier, when approximately 150 officers and men of the 7th Hussars were employed in the expedition against the Mohmands in 1863-64. On 2 January of the latter year, at Shabkadar, they mounted three charges against the Mohmands who had been lured from the mountainsides, and, for a cost of ten men wounded, were credited with dispatching around 100 of the enemy. Taylor was advanced to Trumpet-Major in January 1867, transferred to the Edinburgh Artillery Militia in July 1877 and was discharged in January 1880.