Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Gunner C. A. Taylor, Royal Field Artillery, who died on the Western Front on 17 September 1918
1914-15 Star (L-15116 Gnr: C. A. Taylor. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (L-15116 Gnr. C. A. Taylor. R.A.) nearly extremely fine

Pair: Gunner A. J. Bacon, Royal Garrison Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (202150 Gnr. A. J. Bacon. R.A.); together with a renamed Military Medal, G.V.R. (202150 Gnr. A. J. Bacon. R.A.); and a renamed Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (7084 Rfn. A. Bacon. 4th. K.R.R.) the last two presumably self-awarded, good very fine (7) £120-£160

Cecil Arthur Taylor attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served with ‘C’ Battery, 122nd Brigade, during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 December 1915. He died on 17 September 1918, and is buried in Lebucquiere Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

Arthur Bacon served with the Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War post-1916. There is no evidence of his being awarded either a Military Medal or a Queen’s South Africa Medal.