BORN HULL 1893. SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM TAYLOR (1867-1927) AND ROSA FAITH PEEPS (1870-1908), AT 2, CLAREMONT AVENUE, FIELD STREET, HULL. HE WAS AN ONLY CHILD. WORKED AS A LABOURER. MARRIED AT ST ANDREW’S CHURCH, IN HULL, ON 28/08/1915. HIS WIFE, MARGARET ELLEN BUTTON, AND DAUGHTER ANNA, LIVED AT 20 WARWICK STREET, HEDON ROAD, HULL AND 8 WILKINSON TERRACE, BEAUMONT STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 27/11/1915, AGED 22 AND 2 MONTHS OLD. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 8256, EYR. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5 INCHES TALL, 120 LBS WEIGHT, 36 INCH CHEST. A TATTOO MARK OF “FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY” AND HIS NAME “GW TAYLOR” ON HIS RIGHT FOREARM. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 10/01/1917. POSTED TO THE 7TH EYR, ON 12/02/1917. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, NEAR ARRAS, ON 24/04/1917, AGED 24. A LETTER FROM A PRIVATE, JOYCE IN THE SAME COMPANY, TO HIS SISTER, SAID GEORGE WAS “BLOWN UP”.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MARGARET ELLEN AND THEIR DAUGHTER, MURIEL ROSE ANNIE (BORN 10/02/1916), AT THIS WAR PENSION ADDRESS.
HE LEFT TWO YOUNG HALF SIBLINGS ARTHUR AND ALICE, LIVING WITH HIS FATHER AT FIELD STREET, HULL.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
