Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Mechanician J. Taylor, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (307057 J. Taylor, Act. Mech., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (307057 J. Taylor. Mech., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue), 307057 James Taylor, Mechn., H.M.S. Julius), contact marks and polished, otherwise generally good fine (4) £100-120

James Taylor was born in Forfarshire in April 1882 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in August 1904. A Stoker Petty Officer serving in the store ship H.M.S. Tyne on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he removed to the battleship Commonwealth an an Acting Mechanician in March 1915 and remained similarly employed until coming ashore to an appointment in Pembroke II in August 1917. A few weeks later he returned to sea in the Lord Nelson, in which capacity he served out the War, and he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in November 1919, while serving in the destroyer Aberdare out of the Constantinople base Sirius. Taylor was finally pensioned ashore in August 1926; sold with copied service record.