Auction Catalogue

31 March 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 627

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31 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£270

Three: Private J. Taylor, Cheshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Somme in July 1916

1914-15 Star (16868 Pte. J. Taylor, Ches. R.); British War and Victory Medals (16868 Pte. J. Taylor, Ches. R.), good very fine (3) £160-180

John Taylor, who was born in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, and enlisted at Wallasey, was killed in action on 3 July 1916, while serving in the 11th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, on which date his unit was decimated in an attack south of Thiepval - ‘line after line of troops were mowed down’ after the Battalion was halted by heavy machine-gun fire some 50 yards from the German front line. Of the 20 officers and 657 other ranks who participated in the attack, just six officers and 357 men returned to our lines that night. Taylor is buried in Lonsdale Cemetery on the Somme.