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ROBERT TAYLOR
Kingston upon Hull HU8 8SG
England
BORN DOVERCOURT, HARWICH 1895. SON OF ROBERT ARCHIBALD TAYLOR AND LYDIA ANN TAYLOR, AT 4 OATLANDS ROAD, ENFIELD AND 5 MARKET PARADE, GREEN STREET, ENFIELD, MIDDLESEX (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A PAWN BROKER'S ASSISTANT AND EX RECKITT'S WORKER, LIVING AT MERSEY STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL.
Pte. Robert Taylor, 4th EYR
HE ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 17/04/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 10/09/1916, AGED 21. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, ROBERT ARCHIBALD TAYLOR.
HE IS BURIED AT BAZENTIN-LE-PETIT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT".
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 13/10/1916. *
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE MASSEY STREET & ST MARKS STREET ROLL'S OF HONOUR, & HULL'S CITY ENGINEERS MEMORIAL, PARK STREET, HULL.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE RECKITTS WW1 MEMORIAL, HULL AND HULL'S MERSEY STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 30 December 1916)
Somme 80300
Hauts-de-France
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