A group of five medals to Paymaster Commander Scarlett de Verde Taylor, Royal Navy: Egypt and Sudan

A group of five medals to Paymaster Commander Scarlett de Verde Taylor, Royal Navy: Egypt and Sudan Medal 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (S DE V. TAYLOR. CLERK. R.N. H.M.S. EURYALUS), engraved; 1914-15 Star (FT. PAYR. S. DE V. TAYLOR. R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (PAYR. COMMR. S. DE V. TAYLOR. R.N.); Victory Medal, MID emblem to the ribbon (PAYR. COMMR S. DE V. TAYLOR. R.N.); Khedive's Star, 1882 obverse; mounted for wearing, Egypt Medal with contact marks from the Khedive's Star, otherwise very fine, Great War trio good very fine, Khedive's Star very fine. [5]; together with a mounted set of corresponding dress miniature medals, all in a tailor's case.

The recipient was the son of a sea Captain, and he was born at sea near the Cape Verde Islands (from which circumstance his unusual name derived) on the 14th of November 1861. He entered the service as an assistant clerk in H.M.S. Duke of Wellington on the 15th of July 1878. Following his service in the Egyptian Campaign of 1882 he rose steadily in rank and his service included six years in the Royal Yacht Osbourne where he earned the approval of the future King Edward VII. During the Great War he came under fire while serving in H.M.S. Albion in the Dardanelles Campaign and was wounded in the leg. He died in Folkestone on the 17th of October 1925.