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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 1237

A Second War M.B.E. Group of Seven to Major B.S. Taylor, Royal Signals, Late Royal Engineers a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Member´s (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver b) 1914-15 Star (74601 Cpl. B.S. Taylor. R.E.) c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Lieut B.S. Taylor) d) Defence and War Medals e) Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, with top Efficiency Decoration ´Territorial´ riband Bar, and two Efficiency Decoration G.VI.R. Additional Award Bars, good very fine, together with the related miniature awards, the Territorial Decoration with integral top riband bar but lacking the additional award Bars; War Office Enclosure for the Additional Award Bars to the Efficiency Decoration; Memorial booklet; and a colour portrait of the recipient (7) Estimate £ 240-280 M.B.E. London Gazette 10.4.1945 Major Bernard Stanley Taylor, T.D. (32908), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army. ´In recognition of Meritorious Services.´ T.D. London Gazette 1.9.1933 Maj. Bernard Stanley Taylor, Essex Group, Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Companies. T.D. Additional Award Bars London Gazette 16.2.1951 Major Bernard Stanley Taylor, M.B.E., T.D., Territorial Army Major Bernard Stanley Taylor, M.B.E., T.D., born 1890; enlisted as 74601 Private, Royal Engineers; served during the Great War and Mentioned in Despatches; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, 1.9.1916; Lieutenant, 1.3.1918; advanced Major, Territorial Army, 1.4.1929; employed Royal Corps of Signals, 24.8.1939; Commanded the Second Corps Signals, and Fifth Anti-Aircraft Signals during the Second War; Appointed Postmaster, London S.W.; retired 1952, and emigrated to Cape Town, South Africa. Major Taylor died 17.10.1959. Major Taylor´s group incorrectly includes a G.V.R. Territorial Decoration, when the award conferred was the Efficiency Decoration; however, the top riband bar, and the Additional Award Bars are correct as for the Efficiency Decoration.

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