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
