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Auction: 22101 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 231

(x) Three: Lieutenant-Colonel W. Taylor, Reserve Cavalry Regiment, late Army Service Corps, 7th Dragoon Guards, Rifle Brigade

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Capt: W. Taylor. A.S.C.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. W. Taylor. A.S.C.); Jubilee 1897, silver, mounted as worn, first with rank privately engraved, good very fine (3)

Published Queen's South Africa Medal Roll states Taylor as a Lieutenant, not a Captain. Wilbraham Taylor was born at Gibraltar, the son of Eliza and Lieutenant-Colonel Montagu Brook Wilbraham Taylor. He followed his father into the Rifle Brigade with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, transferring to 7th Dragoon Guards on 5 June 1896. Appointed a Gentlemen Usher to the Lord Chamberlain's Department, he was awarded the 1897 Jubilee medal appearing on the roll above Prince Adolphus of Teck and Prince Francis of Teck. Promoted Lieutenant on 2 January 1899 he was transferred to the Army Service Corps that same day and served throughout the Second Boer War in that role with No.3 Company, being advanced Captain on 27 August 1902. On his return from the conflict Taylor married Vera Annesley, the only daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel R. C. Annesley, late of the 79th (Cameron) Highlanders. With the outbreak of the Great War Taylor served with the 6th Reserve Cavalry Regiment, being appointed adjutant on 14 March 1916. Unfortunately the next month he received the news that his brother, Major Brook Wilbraham Taylor D.S.O., had died of enteric fever after suffering a severe wound. Taylor ended the war with the rank of Honorary Major and lived at Coxwell Lodge, Berkshire. Moving to Dowlands Sway, Hampshire later in his life he died there on 2 March 1924; sold together with copied London Gazette entries, census information and a catalogue containing the entries for the Prince of Teck's medal group.

Further entitled to the British War and Victory medals.

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Sold for
£300

Starting price
£240