TAYLOR, Edward
| Service Number: | 4840 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 January 1916, Boer War 18 mths |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Infantry Brigade Headquarters (AIF WW1) |
| Born: | Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 17 December 1881 |
| Home Town: | Surry Hills, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wool storeman |
| Memorials: | Minmi Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4840, 17th Infantry Battalion, Boer War 18 mths | |
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| 13 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 4840, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 4840, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney | |
| 16 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4840, 5th Infantry Brigade Headquarters (AIF WW1), 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
The Minmi Roll of Honour has 79 names inscribed of those who returned home from The Great War.
The 21st name inscribed is Private Edward Taylor.
I could not locate definitively when Edward died or his place of burial.
Private Edward Taylor, 5th Australian Infantry Brigade Headquarters (Reg No-4840), married wool storeman from 5 Belmore Street, Surry Hills, New South Wales and 170 Glebe Road, Glebe, N.S.W. (1940).
Born Wollongong, New South Wales on the 17th December 1881 (service record Statutory Declaration born 15.12.1886, Dapto, N.S.W.?), to John and Mary Taylor; husband of Maude or Maud A Taylor nee Blissett, married 1905, Wallsend, N.S.W., died?, from Railway Street, Minmi, New South Wales and Brown's Hill, Minmi, N.S.W.
Edward enlisted on the 27th January 1916 with the 17th Battalion, stated age 33 years 1 month, at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on the 14th April 1916.
Disembarked Plymouth, England 7.6.1916.
Proceeded O/Seas to France from Folkestone, England 2.11.1916.
Admitted to hospital 5.11.1916 (scabies).
Granted leave to England from 15.11.1917 to 22.11.1917 and 18.2.1918 to 8.3.1918 and 19.1.1919 to 28.1.1919.
Granted leave to France from 21.1.1919 to 4.2.1919.
Transferred to 5th Australian Infantry Brigade Headquarters 14.12.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 10.4.1919.
Edward arrived home invalided on the 1st June 1919, being discharged on the 16th July 1919.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/minmi-roll-of-honour/.
Lest We Forget.
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