Ian Maclean TAYLOR

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TAYLOR, Ian Maclean

Service Number:	VX51919
Enlisted:	25 March 1941
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	6 Topographical Survey Company
Born:	East Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, 18 March 1921
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Lithographic Printer
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 June 1984, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne The Victorian Garden of Remembrance
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World War 2 Service

25 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX51919
26 Aug 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX51919, 2nd/1st Australian Topographical Survey Company, embarked Sydney for Middle East
16 Mar 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX51919, 2nd/1st Australian Topographical Survey Company, embarked Middle East for Adelaide on board the Andes
28 Apr 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX51919, 6 Topographical Survey Company, embarked Brisbane for Morotai on board the Van Heutz
13 Oct 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX51919, 6 Topographical Survey Company, embarked Morotai for Brisbane on board the Kanimbla
3 Apr 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX51919

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Youngest of the four brothers (Kenneth, John, Donald and Ian) who served in WWII, Corporal Ian Maclean Taylor (Service No:VX51919) enlisted in the AIF on 25 March 1941 - graded Lithographic Draughtsman. Corporal Taylor served in the Middle East with 2/1 Corps Field Survey (26 August 1941 - 16 March 1942), and in Morotai with 6 Australian Topograhical Survey Coy - graded Printer Machine Minder (28 April 1945 - 13 October 1945). Corporal Taylor was attached to 2/1 Australian Topographical Survey Coy at Discharge on 3 April 1946.

Ian was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1921, youngest of six children of Alexander (Alex) McLennan Taylor (b1882 in Ballarat, Victoria) and Lily Victoria May Bond (b1887 at Dean's Marsh via Lorne, Victoria). Alex joined the Victorian Government Railways (VGR) in 1900 as a Number Taker, and was a Shunter in 1910 when he and Lily married in Ballarat. They settled in Ballarat, where they raised their family and Alex was a Shunter and Guard with VGR, and served as President of the Ballarat Literary and Debating Union and the Ballarat City Branch of the Natives' Association, and was a member of the Forestry League and of the Educational Workers' Union. The family moved to Melbourne in 1919, where Alex was Vice President and State Secretary of the Victorian Railways Union, President of the Fitzroy Branch of the Natives' Association, and Vice President of the Carlton Branch of the Labor Party.

Ian - four years of age when his father died in 1925 - was working in Melbourne as a Lithographic Printer in 1941 when he enlisted in the Army. In 1946 in Melbourne he married Isabel Irene Mary Gwilym (b1922 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Isabel was working in Melbourne as a Machinist. Ian and Isabel settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Ian worked as a Lithographic Printer unitl his death in 1984. Isabel died in 2017.

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