TAYLOR, Joseph Millen
| Service Number: | 2563 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Sunderland, Durham, England, October 1890 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Eleebana, New South Wales, Australia, 14 November 1968, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-223. 16. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 2563, Divisional Ammunition Column | |
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| 18 Sep 1914: | Involvement Driver, 2563, Divisional Ammunition Column, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Sep 1914: | Embarked Driver, 2563, Divisional Ammunition Column, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney | |
| 5 May 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column | |
| 9 Nov 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 1st Field Artillery Brigade | |
| 7 Jul 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Driver, 2563, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Gassed | |
| 21 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 2563, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
An Original Anzac who served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.
54 years ago today, on the 16th November 1968, Driver Joseph Millen Taylor, 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade (101st Australian Howitzer Battery, Reg No-2563), miner from Newcastle? New South Wales and 9 Croft Road, Eleebana, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 78. ANGLICAN 3-223. 16.
Born at Sunderland, Durham, England about 1890 to Matthew and Margaret Taylor of Hawk Terrace, Portobello Way, Birtley, United Kingdom; husband of Violet Harriet Taylor nee Williams (married 1925, Hamilton, N.S.W., died 1993, sleeping here), Joseph enlisted on the 27th August 1914 with the 1st Australian Divisional Ammunition Column at Sydney, N.S.W.
Wounded in action - 24.7.1917 (gas poisoning).
Admitted to hospital 26.2.1917 (diarrhoea), 4.4.1918 (not stated).
Joseph was granted Special 1914 Leave and returned home on the 23rd December 1918, being discharged on the 21st March 1919.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, wounding's, returning home, etc.
I have not located Mr. Taylor’s name inscribed on any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at Joseph’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
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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