SIdney Stanley TAYLOR

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TAYLOR, SIdney Stanley

Service Number:	3274
Enlisted:	11 August 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	56th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 20 February 1889
Home Town:	Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Hairdresser
Died:	Wounds, 41st Casualty Clearing Station, Villers-Bretonneux, France, 13 April 1918, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, France Namps-Au-Val British Cemetery (Plot II, Row C, Grave No. 21), France, Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, Namps au Val, Amiens, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Merewether Memorial Gates

World War 1 Service

11 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3274, 20th Infantry Battalion
20 Dec 1915:	Involvement Private, 3274, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
20 Dec 1915:	Embarked Private, 3274, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney
16 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 56th Infantry Battalion
13 Apr 1918:	Involvement Private, 3274, 56th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3274 awm_unit: 56th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-04-13

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

A Hero memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.

Private Sydney (or Sidney) Stanley Taylor, 56th Battalion (Reg No-3274), hairdresser from Hunter Street, Merewether, New South Wales, died of wounds on the 13th April 1918 at Villers-Bretonneux, age 28.

Born at Merewether, New South Wales on the 20th February 1890 to John Samuel (died 1898) of Patrick Street, Merewether, N.S.W., and Elizabeth (died 1936) Taylor of "Suevic", Patrick Street, Merewether, New South Wales, Sydney enlisted August 1915 with the 20th Battalion at Holsworthy, N.S.W., and was wounded in action on the 8th April 1918.

Sydney is resting at Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, France. Plot II Row C Grave 21.

Mr Taylor’s name has been inscribed on the Cooks Hill St. John's Anglican Church Honor Roll, The Junction Soldiers' Monument, Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates, Book of Gold, Newcastle South Public School Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

Sydney has been memorialised at his parent’s gravesite at Sandgate Cemetery, and I have placed poppies in remembrance of their son’s supreme sacrifice for God, King and Country. ANGLICAN 1-40. 17.

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