Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain W. Taylor, Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Capt. W. Taylor. A.S.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. W. Taylor. A.S.C.) rank officially corrected on both; Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £240-£280

Wilbraham Taylor was born in Gibraltar in 1875, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel M. B. W. Taylor, Rifle Brigade, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 7th Dragoon Guards on 6 June 1896. He was seconded for service with the Army Service Corps on 2 April 1899, and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, being promoted Captain on 1 January 1901. He died on 2 March 1924.

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