Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Second World War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Colonel Jack Hulme Taylor, 11th King Edward’s Own Lancers (Probyn’s Horse)

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer ‘s (Brother’s) breast badge, silver and enamel; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Kurdistan, Iraq (Capt.); War and India Service Medals; Coronation 1953, these three unnamed, mounted court style as worn, minor contact marks, very fine and better (8) £420-460

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1946. ‘Colonel (temporary) Jack Hulme Taylor (I.A.83), Probyn’s Horse, Indian Armoured Corps’

Order of St. John, Officer London Gazette 26 June 1953. ‘Colonel Jack Hulme Taylor, O.B.E.’

Jack Hulme Taylor was born in Ceylon on 11 December 1894. Educated at Aldenham School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned on 14 January 1914 and gazetted to the 1st Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment at Peshawar, India. Arriving in India in February 1914, he transferred to the Indian Army in October 1914, being posted to the 11th King Edward’s Own Lancers (Probyn’s Horse). Promoted to Lieutenant in September 1915 and Acting Captain in November 1917, he took part in the operations in Mahsud, March-August 1917, and in Iraq, October 1917-October 1918. Taylor was promoted to Captain in January 1918 and took part in the campaign in Kurdistan in 1919 and further operations in Iraq in 1919-20.

Taylor served as Aide-de-Camp to Sir William Riddell Birdwood, C-in-C. in India, 1925, and was Senior Aide-de-Camp to Lord Halifax, Viceroy of India, 1926-28. Appointed Assistant Military Secretary to the C-in-C. Northern Command, 1930-34, he was promoted to Major in January 1932. During the Second World War he raised, organised and was the first Commandant of the Indian Armoured Corps Tank School. Taylor was promoted to Colonel and retired in 1946 and was awarded the O.B.E. for his wartime services.

Post-war, he was Marshal of the City of London, 1938-57; Common Cryer and Sergeant-at-Arms of the City of London, 1957-58; and Swordbearer of the City of London, 1958-59. Colonel Hulme Taylor died on 3 November 1970. With copied gazette extracts and service details.