BORN LEEDS, 1893. SON OF JOHN TAYLOR OF GROVE COTTAGE, SEACROFT, LEEDS. A DRAPER’S ASSISTANT AND ITALIAN WAREHOUSE WORKER (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD SEVEN BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HIS FATHER AND BROTHERS WERE BUTCHERS, IN THE SEACROFT AREA OF LEEDS. ENLISTED LEEDS. SERVED IN FRANCE FROM 01/09/1915. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 25/07/1916. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FIANCEE, SARAH E NAYLOR, HIS PARENTS JOHN TAYLOR (1851-1922) AND ELIZA TAYLOR, AND YOUNGEST SISTER, MISS HELEN (NELLY) TAYLOR (1894-1929), OF GROVE COTTAGE, SEACROFT, LEEDS (WAR PENSION ADDRESS)
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE HALTEMPRICE STREET MEMORIAL. (HDM 19/09/1916).
HIS ELDER BROTHER, PRIVATE, ARTHUR TAYLOR, 44215, 27TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS (TYNESIDE IRISH), ENLISTED AT MARKERT WEIGHTON AS PRIVATE, 25252, EAST YORKSHIRE RGIMENT AND WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/04/1917, AGED 31.
