Ronald Gilbert (Ron) TAYLOR

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TAYLOR, Ronald Gilbert

Service Numbers:	W235168, WX12496, W78005
Enlisted:	29 July 1940
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 23 December 1913
Home Town:	Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 21 November 1981, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

29 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W235168
7 May 1941:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W235168
8 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX12496
16 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, W78005
16 Apr 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX12496
7 Jul 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, W78005

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Ronald Gilbert Taylor (Service No:W78005) initially enlisted in the Cadet Corps (Service No:W235168) on 15 January 1932 and was a Corporal attached to 13th Field Coy when he Discharged on 3 June 1938. From 8 May 1941 to 16 April 1942 he served as a Private (Service No:WX12496) with 4 Field Squadron 1 Armoured Division and then as Sergeant with HQ L of C until 16 April 1945. Sergeant Taylor remained in the Army until the early 1960s.

Born in 1913 in Kalgoorlie WA, Ron was the second of six children of Ernest Gilbert Medlycott Taylor (b1889 at St Leonard's, NSW) and Amelia (Mil) Harriett Gilham (b1891 at Cavendish in the Southern Grampians, Victoria). Ernest a (Reporter) and Mil married in 1911 in Coolgardie - Ernest then worked as a Clerk and he and his family had moved to Fremantle by 1916 - Ernest worked as a Clerk.

In 1937 Ron was working as a Clerk in Perth when he married Sadie Doreen Morrell (b1915 in Northam WA) - Sadie was living at Claremont. At the end of WWII, Ron remained in the Army until the early 1960s and following his Discharge, worked as a Clerk in Perth. Ron died in 1981 and Sadie in 2015.

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