Victory Medal, disc only awarded to Private J.H. Taylor, 2nd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment who saw service on the Western Front from 23rd February 1915, subsequently being killed in action on 25th April 1915 – the first day of the Second Battle of Ypres. Having no known grave he is now remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
Victory Medal; disc only (1157 PTE. J.H. TAYLOR. E. SURR. R.)
Condition, disc only, edge-bruise at 6 o’clock, Very Fine
James Henry Taylor was born in Southwark, Surrey, and enlisted in London and would see service on the Western Front as a Private (No. 1157) with the 2nd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment from 23rd February 1915, subsequently being killed in action on 25th April 1915, the first day of the Second Battle of Ypres. Having no known grave he is now remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, he is noted as the son of the late Walter Thomas and Ann Elizabeth Sarah Taylor.
