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Surname |
Forename/s |
Rank |
Service Number |
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TAYLOR |
William |
Private |
307333 |
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Place of birth |
Age |
Regiment / Ship |
Date of death |
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Filey |
25 |
1st/7th Battalion, Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regt. |
Sat. 13th Apr. 1918 |
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Last known military action |
Location of death |
Cause of death |
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Battle of Bailleul/Defence of Neuve Eglise, 1918 German Spring Offensive |
Killed in action |
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Cemetery/ Memorial |
Plot/Plaque |
Country |
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Tyne Cot Memorial |
Panels 82 to 85 & 162a |
Belgium |
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Known family |
Family details |
Town of origin |
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George Taylor (Father), Ellen Taylor (Mother), F. TAYLOR & S. TAYLOR (Brothers) |
Family resided at 7, Cromwell Ave. |
Filey |
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Decorations |
UK memorials commemorated on |
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Filey town memorial, St. Oswalds church memorial |
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Notes |
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Memorial photo available. Formerly 26912, Kings Own Yorkshire light Infantry but also served with the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regt. and was wounded with shrapnel in the shoulder on the first day of the Somme. Enlisted on 26th January 1916 and had only been in France for a fortnight. Was taken ill and placed in hospital at the front in June 1917. He later returned to France for another 8 months, until he was hit in the head by a machine gun bullet and killed instantaneously. A letter was sent to his parents by a Captain T. Wilson (R.A.M.C.) who had been acting as an orderly to William's regiment. Mentioned in the Scarborough Mercury (Filey News) on 7th August 1916,29th June 1917 |
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