Victor Abram Taylor

Name

Victor Abram Taylor
8 April 1897

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

24/08/1916
19

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
23248
Suffolk Regiment
2nd Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

British War and Victory medals

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE
Div. 3. E. 4.
France

Headstone Inscription

DEATH DIVIDES BUT MEMORIES CLING FROM HIS SORROWING SISTERS AND BROTHERS

UK & Other Memorials

Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock, St Margaret's Church Memorial, Bygrave, Not on the Letchworth memorials, Not on the Royston memorials

Pre War

Victor Abram Taylor was born on 8 April 1897 in Ashdon, Essex, the son of Abram and Sarah Taylor (nee Coote) and was baptised on 4 July 1897 at Ashdon. He was one of 11 children, but one died in infancy. 


On the 1901 Census the family were living at Barley Road, Little Chishall, Cambridgeshire, where his father was working as an agricultural labourer. His father died in 1910, aged 50 and on the 1911 Census he was living with his widowed mother and five siblings at Bygrave, Baldock and was a 13 year old schoolboy.

Wartime Service

He enlisted in Hertford and joined the Suffolk Regiment, serving with the 2nd Battalion.


He died of wounds on 24 August 1916, aged 19, in an Ambulance Train in France and is buried in Ste. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre. 

Additional Information

His sister Annie Taylor, received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £3 9s 5d. She was living in Letchworth, Herts. 



Acknowledgments

Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson