TAYLOR, George Henry
| Service Number: | 2175 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 September 1915, Naval Forces UT |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 47th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 4 June 1897 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Newcastle East Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Cleaner |
| Died: | KIA - hit by shell, Battle of Flers, France, 14 November 1916, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hamilton Newcastle District Tramways Roll of Honor, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Newcastle (Gardner Memorial) War Memorial, Newcastle East Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2175, 31st Infantry Battalion, Naval Forces UT | |
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| 18 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 2175, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 2175, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Melbourne | |
| 14 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 2175, 47th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2175 awm_unit: 47th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-11-14 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 14th November 1916, Private George Henry Taylor, referred to as Snowy, 47th Battalion (Reg No-2175), tram cleaner (Newcastle District Tramways), from "Hillside", 12 Reid Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, was Killed in Action about 8 p.m. by enemy artillery shell, Battle of Flers, age-19 Years 5 Months.
Born at Newcastle, New South Wales on the 4th June 1897 to Charles Frederick (died 25.12.1935, Newcastle Hospital, N.S.W., age 62) and Caroline Taylor nee Brien (died 12.12.1958, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 85, mother of 10?), Snowy enlisted on the 10th September 1915 with the 31st Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A70 Ballarat on the 18th February 1916.
Admitted to the 11th Casualty Clearing Station 6.4.1916 (bronchitis, hammer toe - a condition where one or more toes exhibit an unusual bend at the middle joint).
Snowy’s name has been inscribed on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France.
Place of Association - Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Taylor’s name has also been inscribed on the Gardner Memorial, Newcastle East Public School Roll of Honour, Book of Gold, Newcastle District Tramways Roll of Honour, NSW Govt Railways and Tramways Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Taylor gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of their son Snowy for God, King & Country. ANGLICAN 1-33. 40.
Older brother Charles Frederick Taylor (born 6.10.1895, Newcastle, New South Wales, beer bottler (Castlemaine Brewery & Woods Bros), from "Hillside", 12 Reid Street, Newcastle, New South Wales and 78 Parry Street, Newcastle, N.S.W. (1928), enlisted 8.3.1915, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, Reg No-20N, RTA 11.4.1919, died 4.9.1966, Kahibah, N.S.W., age 70, not officially commemorated) also served 1st A.I.F.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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