Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookur days at a bombing school. Bombs are fast becoming a most important factor in trench warfare, so a good many men are being trained to use them. It is a nice change after a fortnight's trench life, and very interesting, too." Private C. H. Taylor, was a keen student of Economics, and in an examination held by the Society of Arts in 1914 he won first place in all England. [Illustration: =Clement Harold Taylor.=] =TAYLOR, DANIEL JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1325), 201149, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =TAYLOR, ERNEST=, Painter, 1st Class, 166048, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =TAYLOR, ERNEST EDWIN=, Stoker, Petty Officer, Chatham 295559, H.M.S. Laertes; killed in action in Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914. =TAYLOR, FRANCIS ROBERT=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2265B, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =TAYLOR, FRANK=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 270109, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =TAYLOR, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Officers' Steward, 2nd Class, L. 3147, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =TAYLOR, HENRY=, L.-Corpl., No. 9793, 1st Battn. Essex Regt., 6th _s._ of Thomas Joseph Taylor, of 4, Reed's Bank, Ocklynge Road, Eastbourne, retired Civil Servant, by his wife, Mary White, dau. of the late Henry Seward; _b._ Tottenham, N., 8 June, 1892; educ. West Green Road Board School; joined the Middlesex Special Reserve about April, 1911, and transferred in Aug. following to the 2nd Essex; was sent with draft to Mauritius to join the 1st Battn. in Oct., 1913; left for the Dardanelles on the Caledonia from Avonmouth, 22 Feb. 1915; was appointed L.-Corpl. on the field, died through wounds received in action at the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, 29 June, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Henry Taylor.=] =TAYLOR, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3628), S.S. 101257, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =TAYLOR, JOHN ALFRED=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26367 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =TAYLOR, LEO LAMBERT=, Mechanician, 298742, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =TAYLOR, MILES BRUNSKILL=, Private, No. 7155, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Thomas Taylor, for many years a railway guard on the London & North Western Railway, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Miles Thompson; _b._ Lancaster, 18 Oct. 1886; educ. Christ Church School, Lancaster; enlisted in the 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 26 Feb. 1907. In the Reserve on the outbreak of war he was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; served in France and Flanders, passing unhurt through engagements at Mons, Landrecies, Lowey and Fontenay, but was seriously wounded by shrapnel, 8 Sept. 1914, and died at La Tretoire the same day. He _m._ at Christ Church, Lancaster, 30 Sept. 1912, Margaret (4, Trafalgar Road, Lancaster), yst. dau. of the late Robert Turner, of Maze Lisburn, Ireland, and had two daus.: Hilda Irene, _b._ 21 June, 1913; and Annie Norah Myles, _b._ 30 Dec. 1914. Three of his brothers are now (1916) on active service, and one a munition worker. [Illustration: =Miles Brunskill Taylor.=] =TAYLOR, RONALD FRANCIS=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. King's Shropshire L.I. 4th _s._ of Alfred Taylor, of Starston Place, Harleston, Norfolk, J.P., by his wife, Anna Enfield, dau. of Septimus Dowson, of Southtown, Great Yarmouth; _b._ Starston Place, afsd., 29 Feb. 1888; educ. St. Andrew's School (Rev. E. L. Browne), Eastbourne; Malvern College, and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1909); and after a short period as an assistant master at St. Andrew's School, joined the firm of Oslers, Birmingham; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 5th Shropshire L.I. 28 Sept. 1914; went to France 21 May, 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 9 Aug. 1915, during the attack on Hooge. He was in command of an advance trench, a shell killing him instantaneously while he was endeavouring to bind up the wound of one of his corporals. Lieut. Taylor was a good athlete, and an all-round sportsman. He was a member of the Malvern College Cricket XI, and a fine shot. [Illustration: =Ronald Francis Taylor.=] =TAYLOR, THOMAS=, Sick Berth Steward (Pensioner), 121820, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =TAYLOR, THOMAS JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 404), late Ch./6355, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =TAYLOR, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4250), S.S. 102958, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =TAYLOR, WALTER WILLIAM=, Rifleman, No. 604, 1/21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles), The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of William Taylor, Verger and Guide at St. Paul's Cathedral, by his wife, Clara, dau. of James Fensome; _b._ Brixton, London, S.W., 19 June, 1888; educ. St. Saviour's School there; was a Porter in the Goods Department of the S.E. and C. Railway; joined the Surrey Rifles, 1 Aug. 1909; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 12 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 25 May, 1915; being buried there. He _m._ at St. Paul's Church, Herne Hill, S.E., 1910, Maud (99, Milkwood Road, Herne Hill), dau. of Ernest Ward, and had two children: Walter William, _b._ 17 June, 1913, and Maud Ethel, _b._ 11 Jan. 1911. [Illustration: =Walter William Taylor.=] =TAYLOR, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13522, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =TAYLOR, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3554), S.S. 956, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GAWAN-TAYLOR, FRANCIS=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 2nd _s._ of His Honour Judge (Henry) Gawan-Taylor, of Croftlands, Heads Nook, Cumberland, County Court Judge of Circuit No. 3, Cumberland and Westmoreland, by his wife, Rachel, 3rd dau. of the late Thomas Joseph Candler, of Low Hall, West Ayton, co. York; _b._ Darlington, 27 Aug. 1892; educ. Rossall (Scholar and Exhibitioner), and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Scholar, 1913); was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. (Special Reserve), 16 Jan. 1915; was attd. to the 2nd Battn.; went to France, 1 June, 1915, and was killed in action near Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915, during the British advance north and west of Hooge; _unm._ Buried there. While at Rossall School he was a member of the O.T.C.; was a keen athlete and ran in the mile race for Cambridge in 1914, when the Oxonian, A. N. S. Jackson, beat him by eight yards. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: "Your son was one of my subalterns; he was a very promising young officer and was doing very well. We had to take some German trenches.... I had two subalterns h |