Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Second Lieutenant H. R. Taylor, Surrey Yeomanry, attached Machine Gun Corps, late Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Memorial Plaque (Harold Richard Taylor) extremely fine (3) £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Surrey Yeomanry.

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Harold Richard Taylor was born in Taunton, Somerset. An Articled Clerk to a firm of auctioneers by occupation, he attested for the West Somerset Yeomanry on 15 February 1910, aged 20 years, 5 months. Transferring to the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, he entered the Great War as a Corporal in “B” Squadron of that unit, serving in Salonika. He was discharged to a commission in the Surrey Yeomanry on 20 December 1915. Attached to the 77th Company Machine Gun Corps, 2nd Lieutenant Taylor died of wounds on 17 March 1917 at the 31st Casualty Clearing Station, Salonika. He was buried in the Sarigol Military Cemetery, Kriston, Greece. He was the son of Theophilus and Elizabeth Alice Taylor of Roslin Villa, Richmond Road, Taunton, Somerset. Sold with commemorative scroll inscribed, ‘2/Lieut. Harold Richard Taylor, Surrey Yeomanry’, card envelope and forwarding slip for Memorial Plaque, copied m.i.c. and 19 copied sheets of service papers.