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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 1024

A fine campaign group of six awarded to Air Commodore L. Taylor, C.B.E. Royal Air Force, thrice 'mentioned' for services during the Second World War

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (Air Cdre. L. Taylor. R.A.F.); Coronation 1953, good very fine and most scarce to rank (6)


[C.B.E.] London Gazette 1 January 1951.

Leonard Taylor was born on 28 April 1902. Commissioned on 10 August 1925, he initially served as Stores Officer with No. 207 Squadron at R.A.F. Eastchurch. Promoted Squadron Leader on 1 December 1937, he was three times mentioned in despatches for services in North Africa and North West Europe during the Second World War (London Gazettes 1 January 1943, 1 June 1943 & 14 January 1944, refer), and was later appointed R.A.F. Chief Maintenance Staff Officer in June 1944 (The Liverpool Daily Post, refers). Appointed Air Commodore on 1 July 1949, Taylor served from 4 September 1953 as Senior Equipment Staff Officer at M.E.A.F., Episkopi, Cyprus, and served in Air Logistics at S.H.A.P.E., Paris, from 26 July 1956.

The Private Papers of Air Commodore L. Taylor, C.B.E., are held in the collection of the Imperial War Museum; sold with copied research.


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£400

Starting price
£210