Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Flight Cadet E. C. Taylor, Royal Air Force and West Kent Yeomanry, later Observer, Royal Observer Corps

1914-15 Star (1228 Pte. E. C. Taylor W. Kent Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (319891. F. Cdt. E. C. Taylor R.A.F.); Defence Medal, in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. E. C. Taylor, Stonefield, Ashford Road, Bearsted, Nr. Maidstone, Kent’, with enclosure; Royal Observer Corps Medal, E.II.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Bar (Observer E. C. Taylor) last in card box of issue, also with named card box of issue for Second Award Bar, Great War awards mounted for wear, generally good very fine or better (5) (5) £300-£400

Edward Cunningham Taylor was born in September 1896, and served during the Great War with the 1/1st West Kent Yeomanry in the Gallipoli theatre of war from 6 October 1915. He subsequently transferred to The Buffs before transferring as Flight Cadet to the Royal Air Force in 1918. Taylor was demobilised with the honorary rank of Second Lieutenant, and served with the Royal Observer Corps during the Second World War.

Sold with following original documentation: Portrait photograph of recipient in uniform; envelope with 3 Egyptian Stamps on, addressed to ‘270731 Flight Cadet E. Cunningham Taylor (West Kent Yeomanry), Central Letter Officer, Training Brigade, R.A.F., E.E.F.’; 2 notebooks filled with notes in pencil on Lewis Gun training by recipient.