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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 548

Eight: Brigadier General E.McK. Taylor, Indian Army, late Army Service Corps and Essex Regiment Order of the Indian Empire, Companion´s (C.I.E.) neck Badge, gold and enamel; Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Member´s (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver (Hallmarks for London 1918); 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut.E.Mc.K. Taylor. Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); 1939-45 War Medal; India Service Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, extremely fine (8) Estimate £ 550-600 Brigadier General Edward McKenzie Taylor C.I.E., M.B.E., born 1889, entered the 1/5th Battalion Essex Regiment as a Temporary Lieutenant 1.12.1914; landed on ´A´ Beach, Suvla Bay, Gallipoli 10.8.1915 and on the 14th after moving into the front line trenches he led a platoon and took a defended hillock from a group of Turkish snipers (wounded); he disappears from the army list and reappears as a Temporary Lieutenant A.S.C. 14.12.1916 and acting Captain March 1918 (M.B..E. London Gazette 3.6.1919; Mentioned in Despatches 14.6.1918); Lecturer in Agricultural Chemistry, Cambridge University 1926-30; Director, Irrigation Research Institute, Punjab 1920-44; commissioned into the Indian Army as Lieutenant Colonel and advanced to Brigadier General, Director of Military Research Station, Lahore 1941 (C.I.E. 1942)

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