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Medal, campaign   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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William McMillan
Title
Medal, campaign
Object type Classification: 278
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English: Victory Medal, 1914-19, WW1 Medal awarded to 12-3166 Lance Corporal Frederick Charles Taylor, Auckland Infantry Regiment, NZEF. circular bronze medal with ribbon; fixed loop and ring suspension; ribbon missing obverse- the winged, full-length figure of Victory, with her arm extended and holding a palm branch in her right hand reverse- inscription- ‘THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILIZATION, 1914-1919’ surrounded by a wreath ribbon- watered colours of red, yellow, green, blue and violet merging into a rainbow pattern named on edge- 12-3166 L-CPL F.C. TAYLOR. N.Z.E.F.
Date World War 1, 1914-18-wars; 1914-1919; George V (1910 - 1936)-House of Windsor-English reign; 26 Oct 1927
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diameter: 36mm
width: 37mm

notes: medal: 36mm diameter ribbon: 37mm wide
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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795173 (object number)
Place of creation Messines
Exhibition history Display: 1A 26
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, W1336.3
Notes Victory Medal 1914-19, WW1 Medal awarded to 12-3166 Lance Corporal Frederick Charles Taylor, Auckland Infantry Regiment, NZEF. Killed in action, Battle of Messines, 7 June 1917. English-born Frederick Charles Taylor was 34 years old when he enlisted on 15th June 1915. (He had 13 years previous service with the Royal Warwick Regiment and had served with that regiment during the Anglo Boer War.) He left New Zealand with the Auckland Infantry 7th Reinforcements on 9th October 1915, disembarking at Suez two months later. He joined the 1st Battalion Auckland Regiment at Moascar Camp where he was promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal. In April 1916 he embarked aboard the Franconi for service on the Western Front. Lance Corporal Taylor was killed in action at the Battle of Messines on 7th June 1917. His service record records that he was buried just south west of Messines at the top left of a line of trees in the gully, and that his grave was marked with a big cross and a red petrol tin. This grave did not survive the war, and Frederick Taylor's name is now recorded on the Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial at the Messines Ridge British Cemetery. When his medals and Memorial Plaque were issued in the early 1920s the friend who was listed as next-of-kin could not be traced and the medals were sent to the Town Clerk Auckland and were later presented to the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
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