Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant Colonel R. S. Taylor, Royal Army Medical Corps
Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. (Lt.Col.); Defence Medal, good very fine (5)

D.S.O. London Gazette 4 June, 1917.
M.I.D. London Gazette 1 December, 1916 (Gallipoli), and 29 May, 1917 (France).
Richard Stopford Taylor, M.B., F.R.C.S. (Edin.), joined the R.A.M.C.-T.F. as Captain in 1912, was mobilised in August 1914 at Croxteth Park, and assigned to the 87th Field Ambulance (1/1st West Lancs F.A. R.A.M.C. - T.F.). He served with 87th F.A. in 29 Division at ‘X’ Beach, Helles, Gallipoli from 25 April, 1915, to January 1916 (despatches), and in Egypt from January to March, 1916. His Division moved to France in March 1916 and was heavily engaged on the Somme where it lost 4240 killed, wounded and missing on the 1st July alone. In 1917, at Arras the Division lost 6000, at Ypres 4500, and at Cambrai 4000. In four days alone at Pilckem in 1917, the Division lost 88 officers and 2024 men. This all meant an immense strain on the Field Ambulances and Taylor’s services were recognised by another M.I.D. and the award of the D.S.O.
Sold with full details of his medical career.