Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Quartermaster and Captain C. M. Taylor, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, late Army Service Corps

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (T/7346 Sgt. C. M. Taylor. A.S.C.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (7346 Co. Sgt. Maj. C. M. Taylor. A.S.C.); 1914-15 Star, erased; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Q.M. & Capt. C. M. Taylor.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R (7345 S. Sjt: Maj: C. M. Taylor. A.S.C.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (7346 Sergt., C. M. Taylor A.S.C.); Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd Class breast badge, by Eduard, St. Petersburg, gold and enamel, ‘56’ gold mark on eyelet, cleaned, some with contact marks, nearly very fine and better (8) £1,400-£1,800

M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919. ‘In recognition of distinguished and gallant services during the period from 1st October, 1918, to the 1st March, 1919. (Milne, C-in-C. Salonika)’

Charles Matthew Taylor, Company Sergeant-Major, 27th Company, A.S.C. was invalided to England from South Africa on 2 June 1900. Appointed a temporary Quartermaster with the honorary rank of Lieutenant in February 1915 (London Gazette 6 February 1915); advanced to Honorary Captain in February 1918 (London Gazette 12 March 1918. As a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 16 April 1915. For his service in Salonika during October 1918-March 1919, as a Quartermaster and Temporary Captain in the R.A.V.C., he was mentioned in despatches. Taylor was additionally awarded the Russian Order of St. Stanislaus 3rd Class. Captain Taylor relinquished his commission on the completion of his service, whilst retaining his rank, on 29 September 1920 (London Gazette 12 April 1922).

With copied research and an original photograph.