AN EXCELLENT “ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS” “SOMME” MILITARY MEDAL & 1914-15 TRIO.

To:
38472. L/CPL H. TAYLOR. 55 FIELD AMB’ R.A.M.C.

(Seriously Wounded, Jaw & Neck in 1917).

A Pre-War Tram Conductor From, Westwood, Oldham, Lancashire.

[THE MEDALS]
Military Medal: 38472. Pte. H. TAYLOR.
55 / F.A. R.A.M.C.


1914-15 Star: 38472, L-CPL. H.TAYLOR. R.A.M.C.
Pair: 38472. A.CPL. H. TAYLOR. R.A.M.C.

[BIOGRAPHY] HARRY TAYLOR: 1891
Harry Taylor was born in 1891 in Westwood, Oldham, Lancashire. At the outbreak of the Great War he was serving as a Tram Conductor with the Oldham Tram Company. He was an early volunteer & joined the army at Oldham on 29th September 1914 at the age of almost 23. He and his family were living at 25 Cairns Street, Oldham at the time of his enlistment.

He arrived in France with the BEF on 27th July 1915 and was awarded the Military Medal for Bravery in The Field during The Battle of The Somme in late September 1916, (London Gazette 21st December 1916).

[SERIOUSLY WOUNDED 1917]
Harry Taylor was seriously wounded by a gunshot to the jaw and neck in late 1917 and was Discharged on 19th November 1917 as no longer fit for military service. He is entitled to Silver War Badge No.270922.









His address upon discharge was 3 Golland Street, Greenacres, Oldham. He was initially granted a weekly pension of 30/- for 4 weeks which was then to be 6/- per week thereafter.



The medals are all EF with original ribbons and the” group comes with an MIC and copies of the very rarely surviving Attestation Papers, and the various pension arrangement papers.

£695