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Four: Captain M. F. Tayler, 17th 'Black Cat' Indian Division, Indian Army, late 7th Rajput...
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Four: Captain M. F. Tayler, 17th ‘Black Cat’ Indian Division, Indian Army, late 7th Rajput Regiment
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with the recipient’s card dog tags (2) to ‘E.C. 5432 2nd Lt. M. F. Tayllr [sic] C of E’, mounted for wear, very fine (4) £70-£90
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Michael Frederick Tayler was born at Newport Pagnell on 11 August 1920, the son of Leonard Frederick William Tayler, a Merchant Navy Purser and former Captain in the Royal Marines. Recorded in 1939 as Assistant Master at the Dunchurch-Winton Hall Preparatory School, Warwickshire, he served as War Substantive Lieutenant with the 7th Rajput Regiment in Burma from 1944-45. Advanced War Substantive Captain 10 September 1945, he witnessed the disbandment of his unit in January 1947 under higher formation of the distinguished 17th ‘Black Cat’ Indian Division - where his comrades in the 6th Battalion of the Rajput Regiment served variously in divisional reconnaissance and with the 255th Tank Brigade. Post-war, Tayler is recorded by Crockford’s as a member of the clergy; he died in 1992.
Sold with a 17th ‘Black Cat’ cloth formation badge and brass shoulder title for the 7th Rajputs.
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with the recipient’s card dog tags (2) to ‘E.C. 5432 2nd Lt. M. F. Tayllr [sic] C of E’, mounted for wear, very fine (4) £70-£90
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Michael Frederick Tayler was born at Newport Pagnell on 11 August 1920, the son of Leonard Frederick William Tayler, a Merchant Navy Purser and former Captain in the Royal Marines. Recorded in 1939 as Assistant Master at the Dunchurch-Winton Hall Preparatory School, Warwickshire, he served as War Substantive Lieutenant with the 7th Rajput Regiment in Burma from 1944-45. Advanced War Substantive Captain 10 September 1945, he witnessed the disbandment of his unit in January 1947 under higher formation of the distinguished 17th ‘Black Cat’ Indian Division - where his comrades in the 6th Battalion of the Rajput Regiment served variously in divisional reconnaissance and with the 255th Tank Brigade. Post-war, Tayler is recorded by Crockford’s as a member of the clergy; he died in 1992.
Sold with a 17th ‘Black Cat’ cloth formation badge and brass shoulder title for the 7th Rajputs.
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Four: Captain M. F. Tayler, 17th ‘Black Cat’ Indian Division, Indian Army, late 7th Rajput Regiment
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with the recipient’s card dog tags (2) to ‘E.C. 5432 2nd Lt. M. F. Tayllr [sic] C of E’, mounted for wear, very fine (4) £70-£90
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Michael Frederick Tayler was born at Newport Pagnell on 11 August 1920, the son of Leonard Frederick William Tayler, a Merchant Navy Purser and former Captain in the Royal Marines. Recorded in 1939 as Assistant Master at the Dunchurch-Winton Hall Preparatory School, Warwickshire, he served as War Substantive Lieutenant with the 7th Rajput Regiment in Burma from 1944-45. Advanced War Substantive Captain 10 September 1945, he witnessed the disbandment of his unit in January 1947 under higher formation of the distinguished 17th ‘Black Cat’ Indian Division - where his comrades in the 6th Battalion of the Rajput Regiment served variously in divisional reconnaissance and with the 255th Tank Brigade. Post-war, Tayler is recorded by Crockford’s as a member of the clergy; he died in 1992.
Sold with a 17th ‘Black Cat’ cloth formation badge and brass shoulder title for the 7th Rajputs.
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with the recipient’s card dog tags (2) to ‘E.C. 5432 2nd Lt. M. F. Tayllr [sic] C of E’, mounted for wear, very fine (4) £70-£90
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Michael Frederick Tayler was born at Newport Pagnell on 11 August 1920, the son of Leonard Frederick William Tayler, a Merchant Navy Purser and former Captain in the Royal Marines. Recorded in 1939 as Assistant Master at the Dunchurch-Winton Hall Preparatory School, Warwickshire, he served as War Substantive Lieutenant with the 7th Rajput Regiment in Burma from 1944-45. Advanced War Substantive Captain 10 September 1945, he witnessed the disbandment of his unit in January 1947 under higher formation of the distinguished 17th ‘Black Cat’ Indian Division - where his comrades in the 6th Battalion of the Rajput Regiment served variously in divisional reconnaissance and with the 255th Tank Brigade. Post-war, Tayler is recorded by Crockford’s as a member of the clergy; he died in 1992.
Sold with a 17th ‘Black Cat’ cloth formation badge and brass shoulder title for the 7th Rajputs.
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