PRIVATE HARRY ALFRED TAYLOR
EAST KENT REGIMENT (THE BUFFS)
7TH MAY 1917 AGE 49
BURIED: CALAIS SOUTHERN CEMETERY, FRANCE
Rifleman Francis Gideon Taylor, son of Harry Alfred Taylor, enlisted in Islington on 13 August 1914. He was killed ten months later on 10 January 1915, as recorded on his father's headstone. Francis Gideon has no headstone of his own and is comemorated on the memorial at Le Touret. His father, Harry Taylor, died of wounds in a base hospital in Calais. Aged 49 at the time of his death he was above the age for military service. His inscription was chosen by his own father, Frank Taylor of Barrow-in-Furness. This means that Harry's wife/Francis's mother does not appear in the records.