Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 3 clasps, Naga 1879-80, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Lieut. E. E. Taylor. 18th Bengal N.I.) unofficial rivets between clasps, nearly extremely fine and scarce £500-£600

Ernest Edmund Taylor was born on 3 July 1855, and was first commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 28 January 1875. He transferred to the Bengal Staff Corps on 6 October 1877, and was promoted to Captain on 28 January 1886. He served with the 18th Bengal Native Infantry in the Naga Hills Expedition of 1879-80 (Medal with clasp) and in the Burmese Expedition 1886-7 (Clasp). Third clasp is unconfirmed. Captain Taylor died in 1892.