Detail victim

Personal data

• Name TAYLOR
• Initials ER
• First name ERNEST REGINALD
• Family Son of George Brocklehurst Taylor and Florence Anna Taylor.

Military service

• Rank Captain
• Medals M C
• Regiment and unit 18th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
• Division - Brigade 122nd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 41st Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Attached or transferred from 7th - Bn. - Essex Regiment
• Other data related to military career to France on 4 October 1916;
  Attd. 18th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
  M C ' 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to
  duty when battalion signalling officer.
  When bis headquarters were heavily shelled
  and set on fire, he remained behind at great
  personal risk to collect his instruments and
  disconnect the telephone, although he well
  knew that the ammunition stored there might
  explode at any moment. The dug-out blew
  up very shortly afterwardte, and he then
  went to another station under heavy shell
  fire and sent back valuable information to the Brigade' (LG 08/01/1918)

Death

• Date of death 11 August 1918
• Died at the age of 28
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XX - D - 22

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