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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Bar (J.98241 W. F. Taylor. P.O. H.M.S. Barham.) edge bruising, suspension claw slack, the obverse polished, therefore nearly very fine, the reverse better £100-140

William Frank Taylor was born at Brighton, Sussex, on 30 September 1904, and joined the Royal Navy on 31 July 1920, as a Boy 2nd Class serving in H.M.S. Impregnable. Promoted Able Seaman on 3 October 1923, he was awarded his Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 4 October 1937. He served during the Second World War in H.M.S. Rockingham, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 1 January 1944). He received a Second Award Bar to his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 23 September 1952.