BORN HULL 1896. SON OF JOHN & FLORENCE TAYLOR, OF 9, ETTYS GROVE, STRICKLAND STREET, HULL.
HIS WIFE, ELIZA TAYLOR (BORN 23 SEPT 1897), RESIDED AT 23, UPPER UNION STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) AND 6, INGRAM PLACE, PORTER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A DOCK LABOURER AND EX BLUNDELL’S PAINT WORKER. THEY HAD ONE SON ELAM JAMES TAYLOR, (BORN 16 APRIL 1916), WHO DIED IN INFANCY ON 14 FEB 1918.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 22/07/1917, AGED 19.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WENT TO HIS MOTHER, WHO LATER BECAME MRS FLORENCE WILSON. HEIS WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS WIDOW, ELIZA, BUT WAS REDUED TO 13/9 SHILLINGS A WEEK ON THE DEATH OF THEIR SON.
HE IS BURIED AT DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE.
