Name
Frederick Stanley Taylor
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
29/05/1940
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5989438
King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HOOGSTADE CHURCHYARD
Grave 105.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
WORTHY OF REMEMBRANCE. HIS LOVING WIFE AND CHILDREN
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St. Mark’s Church Memorial, Hitchin, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was born in Hertfordshire and was resident in the county at the time he enlisted. His Service Number was 5989438 and at the 1st September 1939 was serving with the Hertfordshire Regiment. He was later posted to the K.O.R.R. in one of the 5th, 6th or 9th Battalions of the Regiment but it is difficult to be certain which, without considerable further study. His death occurred during the Battle of France when the German Armies smashed both the French and British Armies, and the British withdrew to the coast at Dunkirk and the French capitulated shortly afterwards. On the day of his death the Germans claimed the capture of Ypres and other towns in the area as the British withdrew.
He is buried in Grave 105 in Hoogstade Churchyard in Belgium. The village is 20 miles northwest of Ypres and there are only twelve British war graves in the churchyard.
He was the son of Stanley and Gladys Taylor and the husband of Queenie.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, ‘The Second World War’ by J.A. Hammerton, ‘Orders of Battle 1939-45’ by H.J. Joslen, ‘The Ypres Salient’ by M. Scott
