Hedley Fyfe (Ley) TAYLOR

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TAYLOR, Hedley Fyfe

Service Number:	W70563
Enlisted:	16 January 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born:	Southern Cross, Western Australia, 21 April 1909
Home Town:	Capel, Capel, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Capel, Western Australia, 11 July 1981, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Capel Cemetery Capel, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

16 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W70563, 5th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Date unknown:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W70563, 5th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

One of three brothers who served in WWII, Private Hedley Fyfe Taylor (Service No:W70563) served in the ACMF with 5th Battalion VDC from 16 January 1942 to 31 July 1944 (Reserves List).

Ley was born at Southern Cross, Western Australia in 1909, fourth of six children of Hedley Stuart Taylor (b1877 in Wallaroo, South Australia) and Blanche (Cissie) Maude Smith (b1877 in Tarnagulla, Victoria). Hedley Snr moved to Western Australia in the early 1900s, and was Bank Manager with the WA Bank at Lennonville, Coolgardie in 1903 when he and Cissie (a Domestic Servant in Perth) married in Perth in 1903. Hedley Snr remained with the WA Bank as Manager and Accountant, and he and Cissie lived in Lennonville, Coolgardie, Mount Magnet, Southern Cross, Yilgarn, Busselton and Ludlow with their family.

In the early 1930s Ley was a Dairy Farmer on Roleystone Farm at Ludlow via Capel, and in 1938 in Capel, married Fanny (Ettie) Henrietta Turner (b1913 in Perth, Western Australia). Ley and Ettie settled in Capel, where they raised their family and Ley was a Farmer until his death in 1981. Ettie died in 2004.

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