Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An extremely well documented group of three awarded to Captain W. W. Taylor, Northamptonshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (2. Lieut: W. W. Taylor. North’n. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. W. W. Taylor.) nearly extremely fine (3) £240-280

William Wynne Taylor was born in Exeter in 1888 and was educated at Dulwich College. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Regiment on 22 September 1914, and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 October 1915, following which the Battalion was heavily involved within the Ypres Salient. Hospitalised with para-typhoid in 1916, he transferred upon his recovery in October 1916 to the 2nd Garrison Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, and was posted to India with the Battalion, where he was based largely at Sialkot and Ahmednagar. After the War he worked in Nairobi as Assistant Treasurer in the Income Tax Office, and in 1940 he was re-called for service in the Second World War, where he served in the Transport Section, Royal Engineers. Taylor married twice, his second wife being Stephana Vere Benson, the well-known ornithologist, and he died in Bideford in 1974.

Sold together with two large and heavy photograph albums/ scrap books containing a wealth of documents on Taylor and his Army career, especially in India, including some original documents, the recipient’s original Commission Document, as well as various newspaper cuttings; interspersed with a range of military photographs of the 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment and the 2nd Garrison Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, the latter taken in India and serving as a rare pictorial record of that Battalion’s garrison service there, the vast majority of the photographs annotated, both volumes bound in leather with the covers embossed ‘W.W.T.’