A Small Collection of Medals to the Merchant Navy

Pair: Mr. T. Tayler, Master of the City of New York

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Mr. T. Tayler, “City of New York”); Khedive’s Star, 1882, severe bruise to the first at 6 o’clock, and corrections to the ship’s name, otherwise very fine and better (2)
£350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to the Merchant Navy.

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Ex Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris collection,16 October 1996 (Lot 307).

Only Masters of Transports received the 1882 Medal, making them unique to each of the 105 vessels employed.

Thomas Tayler, who was born in Conham in 1840 and took his Master’s certificate in 1880, commanded the City of New York during the Egyptian operations of 1882, when she embarked 17 officers and 391 men of the 4th Dragoon Guards, and their horses, for Alexandria. He appears to have come ashore in 1887; sold with some career details.