Name
Alfred Taylor
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1916
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
24489
Grenadier Guards
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS
Sp Mem 77
France
Headstone Inscription
UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, St Stephen's Church Memorial, St Albans (possibly), Not on the Radlett Memorials, We are not aware of any memorial in Bricket Wood to the villagers
Pre War
Alfred Taylor was born in 1886, the son of Abraham and Emma Taylor, and baptised on 10 October 1886 at Radlett, Herts.
His father died in 1888 and his mother remarried on 5 August 1890 at Leavesden, Herts to John England (whose first wife Ann died in early 1890). He was living with his mother and stepfather on the 1891 Census at Frogmore, Herts. They had moved to Bricket Wood by 1901 and on the 1911 Census he was living with his stepfather and mother at Whitehead Cottage, Bricket Wood, Nr St Albans, Herts and working as a Farm Labourer.
He married Elizabeth Maude Bennett in 1914 at Frogmore, Hertford, Herts and later lived at Noke Farm, St Albans. Her address on pension records was given as Noke Cottages, Bricket Wood, St Albans.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford and served with the Grenadier Guards.
He was killed in action on 25 September 1916 during the Battle of Morval, part of the Battle of the Somme, and is buried in the Guards' Cemetery, Lesbouefs, France. He was one of 68 Grenadier Guards known to have died on that day and who are buried or commemorated at the Cemetery.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs E M Taylor, The Gate, Bricket Wood, Nr. St Albans, Hertfordshire, ordered his headstone inscription: "UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY".
His widow received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £2 7s 6d. She also received a pension of 13s 9d a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Gareth Hughes
