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Auction: 24003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 247

(x) Three: Trooper S. H. Tasker, 1st Life Guards

1914-15 Star (3208 Tpr. S. H. Tasker. 1/L.Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (3208 Tpr. S. H. Tasker. 1-L. Gds.), sold together with 3 safe driving medals with a total of 25 dated bars named 'S. Tasker', contact wear, very fine (3)

Samuel Henry Tasker was born at Nantwich, Cheshire on 27 December 1894 and worked with the London and North Western Railway Company between 1908-1912. Enlisting into the 1st Regiment of Life Guards he was posted to them in France on 15 May 1915.

He arrived towards the end of their involvement in the Second Battle of Ypres when the Regiment suffered appalling losses. They were involved at the Battle of Loos between September-October 1915, not being heavily engaged again until the Battle of Arras in April 1917.

The unit was redesignated the Guards Machine Gun Regiment in 1918 but reconstituted in 1919. Tasker remained with them post-war until at least 1925 and by 1928 he was working for a bus company. The same company was later amalgamated into a new organisation called the London Passenger Transport Board which took over transport in London.

He was living at 301 Fulham Palace Road in 1939 and working at the Chelverton Bus Garage across Putney Bridge. Tasker appears on the 1939 census as an Emergency Ambulance Service driver and as a result is possibly entitled to a Defence Medal 1939-45. He was honoured by the London Transport company, which had replaced the L.P.T.B. after thirty years of safe driving. He died in Marylebone in 1962; sold together with copied research including medal rolls, census data and a copied extract from an article entitled Life on the Road Won't be Easier for Some Time.

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£140 to £180

Starting price
£110