Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family group:

Pair: Major W. Kennedy-Taylor, Royal Army Medical Corps

1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt.)

Pair: Private D. W. K. Taylor, Australian Imperial Forces, killed in action at the Battle of Lone Pine, Gallipoli, 6 August 1915

1914-15 Star (2229 Pte., 3/Bn. A.I.F.); Memorial Plaque (Derrick William Kennedy Taylor) extremely fine (4) £180-220

Private Derrick William Kennedy-Taylor, 3rd Battalion A.I.F., enlisted at Bathurst, N.S.W. and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 6 August 1915, the opening day of the Battle of Lone Pine, aged 21 years. (The CWGC states sometime between 6-12 August 1915). Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial. He was the son of Captain William Kennedy-Taylor, R.A.M.C.

William Kennedy-Taylor was appointed a Temporary Captain in September 1915 and an Acting Major in February 1918.