TAYLOR, Harold
| Service Number: | Officer |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 26 December 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 54th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, 23 September 1891 |
| Home Town: | Waratah West, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Wickham Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Mercantile Pursuits |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 19 July 1916, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Rue-du-Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix Plot I, Row F, Grave No 17 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Waratah Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer | |
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| 11 Feb 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Sydney | |
| 11 Feb 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 14 Feb 1915: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 54th Infantry Battalion | |
| 27 May 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, SW to thigh | |
| 8 Aug 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 10 Mar 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Captain, 54th Infantry Battalion | |
| 19 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Captain, Officer, 54th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix) |
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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 awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 19th July 1916, Captain Harold Taylor, 54th Battalion, Mercantile Pursuits (Clerk, Frederick Ash Limited), from "Ellora", 9 Watson Street, Waratah, New South Wales, was Killed in Action by a German Trench Mortar shell between 4.30 and 5.30 p.m. during the Battle of Fromelles, age 24.
Born at Goulburn, New South Wales on the 23rd September 1891 to Joseph (died 4.12.1936, Waratah Hospital, N.S.W., age 74) and Beatrice Georgina Taylor nee Megson (died 4.12.1939, Mayfield, N.S.W., age 76, mother of 3 sons), Harold enlisted on the 26th December 1914 with the 2nd Battalion as a Second Lieutenant at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A48 Seang Bee on the 11th February 1915.
Wounded in action - 27.5.1915 (SW right thigh, slight).
Laid to rest on the 20th July 1916 at Rue-Du-Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France. Plot I Row F Grave 17.
Place of Association – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Harold’s name has been inscribed on the Waratah Park Memorial Gates, Wickham Superior Public School Roll of Honour and the Book of Gold.
Unfortunately, there is no memorial inscription on the Taylor headstone plaque to tell us of the loss of their son during The Great War, and I am unable to erect a Memorial cross, so I have placed poppies at the gravesite in remembrance of Harold’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. ANGLICAN 2-143. 73.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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