BORN BARTON ON HUMBER, 1892. SECOND SON OF FRED AND SARAH ANN TAYLOR. SON OF A GROCER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS. WORKED AS A NURSERY GARDENER. ENLISTED IN BARTON ON HUMBER. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 307647, IN THE 7TH LEEDS RIFLES. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/09/1918, AGED 26. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WENT TO HIS MOTHER, SARAH ANN, AND FIANCEE, SARAH E NAYLOR. HE LEFT TWO BROTHERS, GILBERT AND GEORGE HENRY TAYLOR.
HE IS BURIED AT ORIVAL WOOD CEMETERY, FLESQUIERES, NORD FRANCE. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE BARTON TOWN WW1 MEMORIAL, WIH HIS BROTHER, GILBERT (164 NAMES LISTED, IN THE DATES THEY FELL).
HIS BROTHER, RIFLEMAN, GILBERT TAYLOR, 202331, & 5024, 1ST WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED ON 03/09/1916, AGED 19 AND IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE.
First name:
ARTHUR
Military Number:
307647
Rank:
Private
Date Died
27/09/1918
Place died:
Orival Wood Cemetery, Flesquieres, Nord, France
Age:
26
2 BURGATE, BARTON UPON HUMBER, , NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
