TAUNTON, Clive Warneford
| Service Number: | Captain |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | Monmouthshire Regiment |
| Born: | Burwood, New South Wales, Australia, 22 January 1895 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Haileybury College, Melbourne & Bristol University, UK |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Died: | Killed In Action, France, 25 November 1916, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban H 43 |
| Memorials: | Haileybury College HB |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Nov 1914: | Involvement British Forces (All Conflicts), Second Lieutenant, Monmouthshire Regiment | |
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| 25 Nov 1916: | Involvement British Forces (All Conflicts), Captain, Monmouthshire Regiment | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Captain, Captain, Monmouthshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Clive Warneford TAUNTON was born in Sydney, NSW in 1895
His parents were James Edward Doidge TAUNTON & Julia Francis KYNGDON who married in England in 1872
He was Killed in Action at the Somme, France on 25th November, 1918 and is buried in the Bernafay Wood British Cemetery
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Two of his brothers also served during WW1
1. Edward Francis TAUNTON (SN 753) returned to Australia in 1917
2. Henry Cresswell Doidge TAUNTON - Captain, Australian Army Medical Corp - he died in Adelaide, South Australia in 1967
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Col. I. E. D. and Julia F. Taunton, of The Red House, Newnham-on-Severn, Glos.
He was killed in battle in Flanders and had attained the rank of Captain in the 2nd Battalion of the Monmouthsire Regiment. He had been studying engeineering at Bristol, and volunteered at the beginning of the war. He took part in the two great battles for the possession of Calais, and was one of a very few officers of his regimetn who survived those great trials. He was know at school as 'Curly' and played in the cricket eleven and football eighteen. He left school and proceeded to England to join his family.
CAPTAIN C. W. TAUNTON.
Captain Clive Warneford Taunton, who has been killed in action in France, was the youngest son of Colonel J. E. D. Taunton, formerly D.Q.M G. of the Commonwealth Military Forces. Captain Taunton, who was only 22 years of age, was, at the outbreak of the war studying engineering at the Bristol University, and, obtaining a commission, went across to France with the Territorials, and went through all the fighting, including Ypres and Pozieres. He was a native of Sydney, and was educated at Hailebury College, Melbourne.
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