Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Colour Sergeant Albert Taylor, Devonshire Regiment

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (1646 Corpl. A. Taylor 2nd Btn. Devon. Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1646 C. Sjt: A. Taylor. Devon: Regt.) unit partially officially corrected; Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (1646 C. Sjt. A. Taylor. Devon R.) good very fine (3) £300-£400

Albert Taylor was born in 1877 in Worcester and attested for Short Service with the Devonshire Regiment at Exeter on 29 December 1886. He served with the Second Battalion in India and Burma from 4 January 1888 to 26 January 1893. He was promoted Corporal in March 1890 and was with the North Eastern Column in Upper Burma in 1891-92. He then served briefly in Egypt before returning to Home Duty from May 1893 to March 1911, and received his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal as a Colour Sergeant in 1908. The outbreak of the Great War saw him again serving with the Devonshire Regiment from 11 September 1914, training troops at Aldershot and the Isle of Wight in the rank of Acting Company Sergeant Major. In 1916 he transferred to the Worcester Regiment and was posted to Dublin, Ireland where he gained the rank of Warrant Officer Class II. He was appointed Regimental Sergeant Major in May 1917 and was transferred to the Z Class Reserve in this rank on 8 February 1919. On 23 April 1945 he was presented with the Army Meritorious Service Medal. He died at Totnes in 1961.

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