TAYLOR, Bryson Cooper
| Service Number: | 54518 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 January 1918 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements |
| Born: | Mosman, New South Wales, Australia, 1 January 1899 |
| Home Town: | Turramurra, Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Fort Street SPS and Sydney Technical High School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 18 July 1979, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Sydney Technical High School WW1 Roll Of Honour, Turramurra Memorial Park Memorial Gates, Turramurra Methodist Church Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Jan 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 54518, 34th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 19 Jun 1918: | Involvement Private, 54518, 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Field Marshal embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 19 Jun 1918: | Embarked Private, 54518, 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, SS Field Marshal, Sydney |
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Bryson Cooper Taylor was an Australian World War I soldier and a bank clerk who served in the first world war and returned after the end. He was born in Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales on the 1st of January 1899 (1) along with his three sisters, Lucy, Ethel, Noelle and his brother, Frank, who was also a soldier but tragically died in France during the first world war (2). Bryson was an academically gifted and community involved individual during his life.
Before enlisting, Bryson was a considerate and grateful individual who performed academically well at school. He was raised by his father James William Taylor, a police constable who later changed his occupation to become a real estate agent and his mother, Olinda Lucy Ann (3). Bryson was baptised into the Church of England (4). He later attended two educational facilities; Fort Street High School and Sydney Technical High School (5). At Sydney Technical High School he finished in the top half of his class and excelled in history (6). On top of this, Bryson was a part of the cadet program at school, allowing him to gain knowledge of basic military skills, eventually promoting to a senior cadet (7).
Bryson Cooper Taylor enlisted into the Australian Imperial Force as a Lance Corporal at 19 years of age. He was put into the 34th Battalion on the 30th of January 1918 (8). He embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board SS Feldmarschall for Europe on the 19th of June 1918 (9). Bryson arrived at Codford, an important location, housing several military camps for the training of British, Australian, and New Zealand troops. They settled here before their deployment to either the Western Front or their return back to their home country (10). During his time at the training camp, he was admitted to the hospital twice (12) . Taylor returned to Australia on the 3rd of July 1919 (14).
Nearly a decade later, Bryson Cooper Taylor married Doris May York (1897-1974) in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1928 (15). Shortly after marrying, Doris gave birth to her only child, Lindley Bryson Taylor on the 24th of February 1930 (16). In 1931 he appeared in the Mosman Musical Society’s comedy ‘A Sister to Assist’. He assisted in entertaining audiences that included veterans who were wounded in war (17). Not long after, the Taylor family moved to Turramurra in New South Wales where Bryson worked as a bank official at the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (National : 1901 - 1973), from the 10th of December 1942 (18). As the years passed, Bryson’s family settled down in Roseville, Bradfield, New South Wales, before his wife’s death on the 6th of August 1974 (19). Not long after, Bryson died in 1979 on the 10th of July, aged 80, of unknown causes (20).
Bibliography
Bryson Cooper Taylor, Research on Google Drive
Virtual War Memorial - https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/145698
Canberra UNSW / The AIF Project - https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=295290
National Archives of Australia - https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=1928419&isAv=N
Codford Training Camps - https://anzac-22nd-battalion.com/training-camps-england/#:~:text=During%20the%20First%20World%20War,convalescing%20from%20wounds%20or%20sickness.
Australian War Memorial - https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/atwar/first-world-war
34th Battalion - https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/U51474
Endnotes:
(1) NSW Birth Records, 1 January 1899.
(2) Australian War Memorial, Roll of Honour: Frank William Taylor.
(3) Virtual War Memorial Australia – Taylor family background.
(4) NSW Baptism Records, Mosman, 1899.
(5) Virtual War Memorial - Personal Details.
(6) Sydney Technical High School Class Records, 1913.
(7) School Cadet Corps records, 1913–1915.
(8) National Archives of Australia, Service Record, 54518.
(9) AIF Embarkation Roll, SS Feldmarschall, 19 June 1918.
(10) Codford Camp records, UK Archives.
(11) 14th Training Battalion allocation, AIF records.
(12) Service Record, hospital admission form.
(13) Honours and Awards: British War Medal & Victory Medal.
(14) Repatriation & Return records, 3 July 1919.
(15) NSW Marriage Records, 1928.
(16) NSW Birth Records, 1930.
(17) Mosman Daily Telegraph, review of A Sister to Assist, 1931.
(18) Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, 10 December 1942.
(19) NSW Death Records, Doris May Taylor, 6 August 1974.
(20) NSW Death Records, Bryson Cooper Taylor, 10 July 1979.
(21) Australian War Memorial – Major Campaigns of the First World War.