Name
Ernest Taylor
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/12/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
201207
Essex Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
O. 48.
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
British Schools Museum Memorial, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born and resided in Hitchin. His home was at 14, Sunnyside, Hitchin and volunteered there in May 1915.
Wartime Service
Initially he was in the Bedfordshire Regiment with the Number 20723. He was sent to Egypt in May 1916 in the 4th Battalion of the Essex Regiment with the Number 201207. He was involved in the advance through Palestine, Jaffa and Haifa and was wounded in the vicinity of Gaza.
He was probably moved to a hospital in Egypt where he died and was buried in Row O, Grave 48 in the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt.
Additional Information
He was one of eight brothers serving in the armed forces, three of whom, Ernest. James and Noah, were to lose their lives.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
