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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 560

Efficiency Medal, Territorial, G.VI.R. (919766 Sgt. G. R. Taylor. RA.), with named case of issue, good very fine

Gordon Robson Taylor was born on 30 January 1920. He worked as a Bank Clerk prior to the war and in 1939 was living at 7 Wolveliegh Terrace, Gosforth, Newcastle. Enlisting with the Royal Artillery (T.A.) on 27 April 1939 he was posted to 10th Survey Regiment and served with them in North West Europe. He was captured on 26 April 1945 at Eichholz, North Rhine, Germany. He was held briefly at Stalag X-A, Schleswig from 5-7 May 1945. Taylor was one of the last British soldiers to be captured by the German Army during the war; sold together with copied casualty lists, unit war diary and ex-prisoner of war questionnaire.

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