Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Able Seaman D. Taylor, Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Reserve, who was one of only 4 officers and 22 ratings who survived the sinking of H.M.S. Bayano after she had been torpedoed by U-27 on 11 March 1915

1914-15 Star (189099, D. Tayor, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (189099 D. Taylor. A.B. R.N.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (189099 (Po. B.131) D. Taylor. A.B. R.F.R.) mounted as worn, nearly very fine (4) £140-£180

Dennis Taylor was born in Reading, Berkshire, on 12 June 1879 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Curaçoa on 20 June 1896. Advanced able seaman on 24 July 1898, he purchased his discharge on 29 August 1899, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve at Portsmouth on 4 May 1901. He was re-called for war service on 2 August 1914 and served in H.M.S. Bayano from 18 December 1914. He was serving in her when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-27 ten miles off Corsewell Point at 5:15 a.m. on 11 March 1915, and sank very rapidly, with the the majority of the crew being killed: only 4 officers and 22 ratings, including Taylor, were saved. He was invalided out of the Royal Navy due to injury on 9 June 1915.

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