Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Private H. Taylor, Northamptonshire Regiment, later Royal Engineers and Kettering Fire Brigade

1914-15 Star (606 Pte. H. Taylor. North’n. R.); British War and Victory Medals (606 Pte. H. Taylor. North’n. R.); Jubilee 1935; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (526310 Spr: H. Taylor. R.E.); National Fire Brigades Association, silver medal for long service, with top suspension bar for ‘Twenty Years’ and three bars for ‘Five Years’, unnamed, very fine (6) £100-£140

Harry Taylor was born at Kettering,Northamptonshire, and enlisted into the 4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment on 1 April 1908, and re-engaged for a further 4 years on 1 April 1912. He served at Gallipoli from 15 August 1915, and later transferred to the Royal Engineers. Sold with copied service papers and Medal Index Card, together with a newspaper obituary cutting from 28 February 1964, which states:

‘Mr Harry Taylor, of 73 Green Lane, Kettering, died last week - on the day of his wife’s funeral. Mrs Charlotte Taylor died aged 73. He was 85. Mr Taylor worked as a bricklayer for Kettering Co-operative Society building department for many years. He was a member of Kettering Fire Brigade for 35 years, serving in the days of the old steam fire appliances, and also a member of the United Trades Club for sixty years and a keen Poppies supporter.’