Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant Master Tailor L. A. Taylor, 7th Dragoon Guards, late York and Lancaster Regiment and Medical Staff Corps

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Gemaizah 1888 (5138. L/Corpl. L. A. Taylor. Med: Staff Corps.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (4217. Sjt. Tr. L. A. Taylor. 7/D.G.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (4217. S:M: Tailor, L. A. Taylor. 7/D’gn G’ds.); Khedive’s Star, undated, unnamed as issued, contact marks and pitting from Star, nearly very fine and better (4) £360-£440

Lewis Alexander Taylor was born in Gibraltar in 1865 and attested for the 68th Brigade at Limerick in 28 April 1880, a tailor by trade. Posted to the Medical Staff Corps, he served with them in Egypt, and was promoted Corporal on 26 January 1889, before transferring to the York and Lancaster Regiment with the rank of Sergeant Master Tailor on 13 January 1892, and then transferred with the same rank to the 7th Dragoon Guards on 4 April 1897. He served with the 7th Dragoon Guards in South Africa during the Boer War, before being invalided back to England in February 1900, and was discharged at Shorncliffe on 27 April 1902, after 22 years’ service. He died at Mile End, London on 18 July 1940.

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