TAYLOR, Harold John
| Service Number: | 6114 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Taree, New South Wales, Australia, 27 January 1889 |
| Home Town: | Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Died: | Shell fire, "Stormy Trench," Flers, France, 4 February 1917, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6114, 13th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 22 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 6114, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 6114, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
106 years ago today, on the 4th February 1917, Private Harold John Taylor, 13th Battalion (Reg No-6114), butcher from 23 Cameron Street, Hamilton, New South Wales, was Killed in Action by an artillery shell at Stormy Trench, Somme sector, France, age 28.
Born at Taree, New South Wales on the 27th January 1889 as John Harold Taylor to William Henry (died 4.11.1946, age 87) and Nancy Taylor (died 15.6.1928, age 69) of 81 Lindsay Street, Hamilton, N.S.W.
Harold enlisted March 1916 at Sydney, N.S.W.
No Roll of Honour notices located (very sad).
Harold’s name has been inscribed on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France.
Mr. Taylor’s name has also been inscribed on the Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor, Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial, Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honor, Hamilton St. Peter's Anglican Church Honor Roll, St. Peter's Church Memorial Trees – 3th July 1920, Book of Gold and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the Newcastle & Northern District Branch Meat Workers' Union Honour Roll.
Place of Association – Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
I have placed poppies at the Taylor memorialised gravesite in remembrance of their son’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) N SE. 1A.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
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