Name
Raymond Brewitt-Taylor
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/08/1918
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Army Medical Corps
7th Field Amb
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
M C
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BELLACOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, RIVIERE
III. F. 4.
France
Headstone Inscription
CLEAR-EYED WHERE DUTY LED
UK & Other Memorials
Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar, Not on the Little Heath memorials
Pre War
Raymond Brewitt=Taylor was born was born in 1888 in Foochow, China to Charles Henry Brewit-Taylor, China Customs Official, and Alice Mary (nee Vale).His Mother Alice died in 1891. His father married Ann Michie in 1891. His father had been posted to Beijing during the Boxer Uprising of 1899-1891, residing at the British minister’s House.
In 1906, having returned to England Raymond studied Medicine at St Bart’s gaining his Medical Degree from London University. He came to live in the Potters Bar area.
Raymond married Evelyn Ellis on 27 Jan 1917 at Rosslyn Unitary Chapel, Hampstead. Evelyn resided at the family home of Inglefield, South Mimms. There would be a son Edward Gordon Brewitt-Taylor (born 1918)
Wartime Service
Raymond was commissioned in the Royal Army Medical Corps as Lieutenant on 8 Dec 1915 and was attached to 7th Field Ambulance supporting 3rd Division. He was awarded the Military Cross in July 1916 when he spent 2 hours under heavy shellfire searching for a missing stretcher bearer who was found and returned, an example of his conduct of recovering wounded personnel during 9 days of conflict. He was promoted to Captain on 1 May 1917.
7th Field Ambulance supporting 3rd Division were present for the Battles of the Somme in 1916, In 1917 the Battles of Arras & Passchendaele and in 1918 the 1st and 2nd Battles of the Somme .In 1918. The 3rd Division were engaged in the Battle of Albert (21-23 Aug 1918) when Raymond was Killed in Action by a shell on 22 Aug 1918 dying from the wounds received.
Additional Information
Probate of £1364 3s 11d was granted to his widow Evelyn. He also remembered on a memorial in Foochow, China.
His widow ordered his headstone inscription, while living at Inglefield, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Middx., it reads: "CLEAR-EYED WHERE DUTY LED".
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
