Lot 139
Killed in Action Attacking the Hindenburg Line ‡
Clandestine Operations - Inc The D.J. Croll Medal Collection & Other Properties | M26002
Auction: 16 September 2026 at 10.30 BST
Description
The 1914 Star awarded to Private George Henry Green Taylor, 2nd Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment who was Killed in Action on the 9th of April 1917 in the Battalion attack at Neuville St Vaast during an attack on the Hindenburg line in which the Battalion lost 2 Captains, 12 Subalterns and 328 Other Ranks, comprising, 1914 Star, (3-9713 Pte G.H.G. Taylor. 2/Wilts: R.), very fine (1)
Private Taylor landed in France with the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment on the 7th of October 1914, he was Killed in Action on the 9th of April 1917 he was the brother of Mr. W.T. Taylor of 36, Archer Road, Eastleigh, Hants, he was 24 years old. He is buried in Plot D Row 5 of the Neuville-Vitasse Road Cemetery.
Sold with Copy Photograph in Uniform, Copy Photograph of Headstone, Copy Medal Index Card and Medal Rolls, Copy Pension Details and Copy Battalion war Diary for 9th of April 1917, Commonwealth War Graves details.
