A 'Kettering Town / Northamptonshire' Great War era local interest medal group of 6 to a 'Gallipoli' veteran: Sapper Harry Taylor, Royal Engineers, late 4th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment & Kettering Fire Brigade

- 1914-15 Star (606 Pte. H. Taylor. North’n. R.)
- British War Medal (606 Pte. H. Taylor. North’n. R.)
- Interallied Victory Medal (606 Pte. H. Taylor. North’n. R.)
- Territorial Force Efficiency Medal (526310 Spr: H. Taylor. R.E.)
- Jubilee Medal 1935
- National Fire Brigades Association. Silver Medal (2162)

Fire Brigade Medal: This with integral '20 Years' top brooch bar, & the replacement riband fitted with 3 x additional 'Five Years' LS bars. The medal numbered (2162)

All medals verified as entitled per the respective medal rolls, Army Orders & Newspaper references as under;

- 1914-15 Star: WO 329/2594
- British War Medal: WO 329/480
- Interallied Victory Medal: WO 329/480
- Territorial Force Efficiency Medal: Army Order No 67 01/12/19
- Jubilee Medal 1935: Northampton Mercury 23/8/35
- National Fire Brigades Medal: Northampton Mercury 23/8/35

Important: Harry Taylor's low three digit number on his Great War medals indicate that he was an original muster of the 4th Bn Northamptonshire Regiment (Territorial Force)

Quote (Northampton Mercury issue of 23 August 1935);

IN RECOGNITION of his 35 years' service with Kettering Fire Brigade, Fireman Harry Taylor has been presented with the King's Silver Jubilee Medal. The presentation was made by Mr. Charles Mayes (chairman of the Urban District Council). Mr. R.J. Gibbs (chairman of the Council's Fire Brigade Committee) also being present

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Harry Taylor, eldest son of Charles Richard Taylor & Ellen Belinda Taylor (nee Walton) was a native of, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, where he was born on, 25 March 1878. The Taylor family were well known in Kettering, not least due to their physical presence - as Harry was just one of 11 x children born to his parents., of which 9 survived infancy. Harrys 8 x siblings who survived infancy were sisters; Lizzie Jean Taylor, Ellen Belinda Taylor, Florence Taylor, Edith May Taylor & Beatrice Maud Taylor, and brothers; Arthur Taylor, Charles Richard Taylor & John William Taylor. In 1903, Harry Miller married Charlotte Hughes, at Kettering. The 1911 National Census for England & Wales records Harry employed as a 'Bricklayer' living with his wife and family at, 5 Alexandra Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, together with his wife and two sons, vis William Taylor (6 years of age) & Cyril Taylor (3 years of age). Harry was a keen member of the local Volunteer Force and later Territorial Force, and enlisted into the 4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment on 1 April 1908, and re-engaged for a further 4 years on 1 April 1912. Private Taylor served overseas fighting the Ottoman Turkish Forces at Gallipoli, during the ill-fated Dardanelles Campaign of 1915, where he first entered a theatre of war on, 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:

Quote,

‘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.

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The medals attractively mounted for display on a black felt board, with plastic named plate on front

Sold together with a original (newspaper cutting) & Medal Index Cards, for Great War and TFEM medals

Note this is a heavy lot basis the mounting display and postage is quoted accordingly to reflect this

Condition: Mostly VF

Code: 20955