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BOER WAR & 1897 JUBILEE MEDALS LIEUTENANT COLONEL WILBRAHAM TAYLOR DRAGOON GUARDS

Group of medals to Lieutenant-Colonel W. Taylor, Reserve Cavalry Regiment, late Army Service Corps, 7th Dragoon Guards & Rifle Brigade

Queens South Africa Medal (1899 – 1902), with 3 clasps CAPE COLONY, TRANSVAAL, WITTEBERGEN. Kings South Africa Medal (1902), with 2 clasps, SOUTH AFRICA 1901, SOUTH AFRICA 1902, both period engraved named Capt. W. TAYLOR. A.S.C. Jubilee Medal (1897), un named as issued. Period swing mounted as worn and comes with copies of London Gazette entries, census information, catalogue containing the entries for the Prince of Teck’s medal group and newspaper article.

Lieutenant-Colonel Wilbraham Taylor was born at Gibraltar in 1877, the son of Eliza and Lieutenant-Colonel Montagu Brook Wilbraham Taylor. He followed his father into the Rifle Brigade with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, transferring to 7th Dragoon Guards on 5 June 1896. Appointed a Gentlemen Usher to the Lord Chamberlain’s Department, he was awarded the 1897 Jubilee medal appearing on the roll above Prince Adolphus of Teck and Prince Francis of Teck. Promoted Lieutenant on 2 January 1899 he was transferred to the Army Service Corps that same day and served throughout the Second Boer War in that role with No.3 Company, being advanced Captain on 27 August 1902.

On his return Taylor married Vera Annesley, the only daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel R. C. Annesley, late of the 79th (Cameron) Highlanders.

With the outbreak of the Great War, Taylor served with the 6th Reserve Cavalry Regiment, as a remount officer, being appointed adjutant on 14 March 1916. Unfortunately, the next month he received the news that his brother, Major Brook Wilbraham Taylor D.S.O., had died of enteric fever after suffering a severe wound. Taylor ended the war with the rank of Honorary Major and lived at Coxwell Lodge, Berkshire. Moving to Dowlands Sway, Hampshire later in his life and where he died  on 2 March 1924.

Note there are numerous newspaper mentions of Wilbraham Taylor and his wife, in a variety of social and war time committees.