Name
William Taylor
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
58925
Northamptonshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CROSS ROADS CEMETERY, FONTAINE-AU-BOIS
II. I. 28.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
London Colney Village Memorial
Pre War
William TAYLOR was born in 1893, in Forest Gate, West Ham, London/Essex, son of James Henry Taylor a Labourer and Sarah Taylor, (nee Chadwick). The youngest of their three children, although one died in infancy.
1911 Census records William aged 18, working as a Farm Labourer, living with his parents in Mullingar Terrace, London Colney, Herts.
William married Dorothy Lilian Anderson, the daughter of Henry and Fanny Anderson, at St Albans Registry Office on 26th May 1917, they went on to have one son, William George Taylor.
At the time of his call-up William was living at Chaple Cottage, London Colney, Herts, and employed as a Stockman.
Wartime Service
William travelled to the County Town of Hertford to enlisted in June 1916, posted to the Army Reserve. He was called up for war service on 22nd May 1918, and posted to the 3rd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, issued with the service number 58925. On completion of his training William was sent to the Western Front, embarking at Dover on 24th September 1918, arriving at Calais, France the same day, He joined the 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment in the Field on 30th September 1918. He was Killed in Action just 30 days later, 29th October 1918, aged 25.
He is Buried in Cross Roads Cemetery, Fontaine-Au-Bois, France. Grave Ref: II. I. 28.
Additional Information
Dorothy was awarded a grant of £6, on 16th January 1919, a widow’s pension of 20/5 (£1-00s-05d), a week from 19th May 1919, and his effects of £1-14s-07d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £5.
Dorothy remarried in 1921, to Walter A Beach, in St Albans, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
