TAYLOR, Richard John
| Service Number: | 546 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps |
| Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Traveller |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 546, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps | |
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| 19 Aug 1914: | Involvement Private, 546, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Aug 1914: | Embarked Private, 546, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
| 4 Mar 1915: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 546, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, Medically Unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Richard John Taylor (Service Nos:546/323) enlisted in the AIF on 11 August 1914, and was attached to Australian Naval and Military Expedition Forces (Tropical Unit) E Coy when he embarked with his Unit on 19 August 1914 from Sydney for Rabaul. Private Taylor was Discharged in Sydney on 4 March 1915 - Medically Unfit.
Richard was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1886, second of eight children of Richard Taylor (1855 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Mary Ann Cadill (b1859 in Melbourne, Victoria). Richard Snr (a Police Constable) and Mary married in Melbourne in 1883, and lived in Ballarat and Melbourne, where they raised their family and Richard Snr was a Police Constable and later a Watchman.
Richard worked as a Traveller in Melbourne where, in 1910, he married his first wife Mary Florence Holmes (b1892 in Melbourne, Victoria). Following his Discharge from the AIF in 1915, according to NAA Service Records, he 'proceeded to permanent duty at the Battery' and was Staff Sergeant Major (Instructor) at Staff School in Liverpool, NSW. Mary died in 1917, and by 1920 Richard was Area Officer with the Army in Maryborough, Victoria. In 1920 in Maryborough, he married Ethel Annie Hemley (b1886 in Majorca, Victoria) - Ethel was a Nurse in maryborough. Ethel died in 1923, and Richard's whereabouts were not known (correspondence was received by the Army from people requesting information about his whereabouts in the 1920s/1930s: NAA). In 1934 Richard again appears in the Electoral Rolls, working at the State Hospital in Liverpool, NSW as a Chef. In 1943, he wrote to the Army from Ward 19, State Hospital, Lidcombe, NSW requesting copies of his Discharge Papers.