Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Captain A. E. Taylor, Royal Army Pay Corps, late Scots Guards and Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Capt. A. E. Taylor, R.A.P.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (2688495 W.O. Cl. II A. E. Taylor, S. Gds.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (2688495 W.O. Cl. I A. E. Taylor, S.G.), mounted court-style as worn, together with a set of related dress miniature medals, generally good very fine (12) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards for the 1939-45 War.

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Albert E. Taylor transferred to the 6th (Renfrewshire) Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in September 1939, in the rank of Warrant Officer 1st Class, and served in that capacity in the B.E.F. in France and Belgium from November 1939 until June 1940. Subsequently commissioned in the Royal Army Pay Corps, he was advanced to Captain in October 1949 and, following service in the Malaya operations, was placed on the Retired List. The award of his M.S.M. was announced in AO 156 of 5 December 1953.