Medals and Decorations to the Renny-Tailyour Family

The Great War D.S.O. group of nine awarded to Colonel J. W. Renny-Tailyour, Royal Horse Artillery

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, with integral top riband bar; 1914-15 Star (Major J. W. Renny-Tailyour. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major J. W. Renny-Tailyour.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lt. Col. J. W. Renny-Tailyour, R.F.A.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, reverse dated 1914-1916, with bronze palme, mounted as worn, centres loose on D.S.O., otherwise good very fine and better (9) £1,200-£1,600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals and Decorations to the Renny-Tailyour Family.

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D.S.O. London Gazette 18 June 1916.

Croix de Guerre London Gazette 31 August 1917.

John Wingfield Renny-Tailyour was born on 20 May 1881, eldest son of Henry Waugh Renny-Tailyour, Colonel, Royal Engineers. He was educated at Wellington College and R.M.A. Woolwich, being commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Horse Artillery, on 2 May 1900; Lieutenant, 2 April 1901; Captain, 8 February 1910; Major 30 October 1914. Served in the European War in Mesopotamia from 23 February 1915 (Despatches London Gazette 13 July 1916 (Townshend), 19 October 1916 (Lake) and 15 August 1917 (Maude), French Croix de Guerre). He was invalided to India in May 1917 and subsequently given command of 16th Brigade, which he commanded during the Afghan War 1919 (Despatches, Monro, 1 November 1919)). He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 January 1925, was afterwards Deputy Lieutenant for Montrose and died in 1969 at Dubton.

Sold with a comprehensive collection of original documents, photographs and diaries, including Warrant and statutes for D.S.O.; four M.I.D. certificates; a quantity of correspondence addressed to J. W. R-T, mostly to Mesopotamia and India; typescript ‘War Diary 2nd Battery R.F.A. 1914-18’; post-war diaries 1930-50; R.A. golfing award (23 September 1920); two large group photographs, several portrait photographs from 1900-1920, and two large photograph albums 1900-37 with many wartime photographs in India and Afghanistan.