Name
James Taylor
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/08/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
9530
The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 3-4
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial
Pre War
Born and resident in Hitchin, but was a serving soldier with the Service Number 9530 in the 1st Battalion and at the outbreak of war. His home address was 13, Sunnyside, Hitchin.
Wartime Service
James went to France almost immediately and was in the Retreat from Mons, on the Marne, Somme, Arras, Ypres, Loos and Cambrai. He was wounded and reported missing presumed killed. The Battalion was part of the 6th Brigade in the 2nd Division.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the ‘Soldiers died’ database state that he was killed on the 25th August 1918. He has no known grave and is remembered on Panels 3 & 4 of the Vis-en-Artois Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
