Three: Colour Sergeant A. Taylor, Devonshire Regiment India General Service 1854-95, 1...

Three: Colour Sergeant A. Taylor, Devonshire Regiment India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (1646 Corpl. A. Taylor 2nd Btn. Devon. Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1646 C. Sjt: A. Taylor. Devon: Regt.) unit partially officially corrected; Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (1646 C. Sjt. A. Taylor. Devon R.) good very fine (3) £300-£400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2019. Approximately 50 Annuity MSM’s awarded to 11th Foot/Devonshire Regiment (of which 11 were G.VI.R. 1st issue) Albert Taylor was born in Worcester in 1877 and attested for Short Service with the Devonshire Regiment at Exeter on 24 December 1886. He served with the 2nd Battalion in India and Burma from 4 January 1888 to 26 January 1893, and was promoted Corporal in March 1890, prior to serving with the North Eastern Column in Upper Burma in 1891-92. He then served briefly in Egypt before returning to Home Duty from May 1893 to March 1911, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal as a Colour Sergeant in 1908. Discharged to pension 11 March 1911 he obtained employment as a labourer with Devonport Dockyard. Recalled as a Special Reservist on 11 September 1914, Taylor again served with the Devonshire Regiment training troops at Aldershot and the Isle of Wight in the rank of Acting Company Sergeant Major. In 1916 he transferred to the Worcester Regiment and was posted to Dublin, Ireland where he gained the rank of Warrant Officer Class II. He was appointed Regimental Sergeant Major in May 1917 and was transferred to the Z Class Reserve in this rank on 8 February 1919, having seen home service only, and returned to his employment with Devonport Dockyard. Awarded his Army Meritorious Service Medal with annuity on 23 April 1945, he died at Totnes on 28 December 1961, aged 94. Sold with copied service record and other research.