The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick

Four: Inspector-General J. R. Taylor, C.B., Army Medical Department

Sutlej 1845-46, for Ferozeshuhur 1845, 1 clasp, Sobraon (Surgn., 29th Regt.); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Surgn., 80th Regt.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, pierced with ring suspension, all with silver buckles on ribbons, minor edge bruising, very fine and better (4) £800-900

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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John Robert Taylor was born on 14 October 1810 and appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Army Medical Department on 31 May 1833. After service with the 58th Foot, he was appointed Surgeon to the 29th Foot on 14 June 1842. With them he served in the First Sikh War before being transferred to the 80th Foot in 1848. Appointed Deputy Inspector-General in 1855, he was awarded the C.B. in 1856 and advanced to Inspector-General in 1858. Taylor was appointed Queen’s Honorary Surgeon in 1859. He retired on Half Pay on 11 August 1863 and died at Cheltenham on 23 December 1892.