TAYLOR, John Andrew
| Service Number: | V69050 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 March 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 6 Infantry Battalion AMF |
| Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 24 November 1914 |
| Home Town: | Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Secondhand Dealer |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 3 October 1988, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 18 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, V69050, 6 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
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| 3 Jun 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, V69050, 6 Infantry Battalion AMF |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
One of four brothers (Kenneth, John, Donald and Ian) who served in WWII, Corporal John Andrew Taylor (Service No:V69050) served in the Militia (Corporal; 6th and 14th Battalions; Service No:294687) from 25 November 1932 to 24 February 1938. Corporal Taylor then served in the ACMF with 6 Battalion RMR from 18 March 1941 to 3 June 1942.
John was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1914, third 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) as a Number Taker in 1900, and was a Shunter in 1910 when he and Lily married in Ballarat. Alex and Lily settled in Ballarat, where they raised their family and Alex worked as a Shunter and Guard for VGR, and served as President of the Ballarat Literary and Debating Union and of the Ballarat City Branch of the Natives' Association, and was a member of the Educational Workers' Union and of the Forestry League. In 1920 Alex and Lily moved thier family to Melbourne - Alex was State Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Railways Union and President of the Fitzroy Branch of the Natives' Association.
John worked in Melbourne as a Carrier and Secondhand Dealer, and in 1944 married Elizabeth (Hazel) May Gannaway (nee Waterston; b1898 in Bendigo, Victoria). John and Hazel lived in Melbourne, where John was a Secondhand Dealer until the late 1950s, when they moved to Brisbane. Hazel died in 1967 and John died in 1988.