TAYLOR, Andrew Fyfe
| Service Number: | WX10274 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 December 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mount Magnet, Western Australia, 1 May 1907 |
| Home Town: | Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 28 June 1963, aged 56 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Wandering Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 18 Dec 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX10274, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Sep 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX10274, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion, embarked Fremantle for Middle East | |
| 18 Feb 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX10274, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion, embarked Middle East for Fremantle | |
| 21 Oct 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX10274, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion, embarked Townsville for Port Moresby on board the Katoomba | |
| 4 Mar 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX10274, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion, embarked Finschafen for Brisbane on board Sea Snipe | |
| 22 Feb 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX10274, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Eldest of three brothers who served in WWII, Private Andrew Fyfe Taylor (Service No:WX10274) enlisted in the AIF on 18 December 1940 with 13 Training Battalion - graded Driver Mechanic. Private Taylor served with 2/32 Infantry Battalion in the Middle East (9 September 1941 - 18 February 1943) and New Guinea (21 October 1943 - 9 March 1944), and was hospitalised with Pneumonia and Malaria. Private Taylor was attached to 2/32 Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 22 February 1945.
Mick was born at Mt Magnet, Western Australia in 1907, third of six children of Hedley Stuart Taylor (b1877 in Wallaroo, South Australia) and Blanche (Cissie) Maude Smith (b1877 in Tarnagulla, Victoria). Hedley moved to Western Australia in the early 1900s, and was Bank Manager with the WA Bank in Lennonville via Coolgardie in 1903 when he and Cissie married in Perth. Hedley and Cissie lived in Southern Cross, Coolgardie, Mount Magnet, Yilgarn and Busselton, where they raised their family and Hedley was Bank Manager and Accountant with the WA Bank.
Mick worked in Picton via Menzies as a Prospector, and in 1940 was a Miner in Kalgoorlie when he enlisted in the AIF. In 1941 in Northam, Mick married Linda (Lynne) Mary Cornish (b1914 in Pinjarra, WA), and following his Discharge, Mick and Lynne settled at Ranford via Boddington, where they raised their son and Mick was a Farmer. Mick spent considerable periods of time post-war in Hollywood Hospital in Perth, and died in 1963. Lynne died in 1993.
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