Frederick Stanley Taylor

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