Name
Francis Maurice Taylor
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/07/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Fusiliers (*2)
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 8 C 9 A and 16 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted - Berkhamsted Collegiate School, St. Peter & St. Paul's Church Memorial, High Street, Newport Pagnell, Bucks.(*1)
Pre War
Born Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire circa 1897, the son of Francis William Taylor & Annie Taylor (nee Linnell).
Educated at Berkhamsted School, Hertfordshire. After leaving school he joined Messrs. Peek Bros. & Winch, Ltd., tea merchants, Eastcheap, London.
He joined the Inns of Court Training Corps in January 1914 & was in training when the war broke out
Wartime Service
He was commissioned to the 10th (Stockbrokers') Battalion, Royal Fusiliers on 11 September 1914.
It was noted that he had done a good deal of trench fighting and night patrol duty. Francis was killed while leading his Platoon in the attack on Pozieres 15th July 1916. He was 19.
He body was lost and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Lieutenant Colonel the Hon R. White, officer commanding the Royal Fusiliers, wrote: "He was killed carrying back a wounded soldier [Sidney Seager] in the face of terrible machine gun fire”.
Additional Information
*1 His memorial in St. Peter & St. Paul's Church Memorial, High Street, Newport Pagnell, Bucks. reads "In loving Memory of Francis Maurice Taylor, 10th Royal Fusiliers. who was Killed while leading his Platoon in the attack on Pozieres 15th July 1916. Aged 19 years".
*2 Also unofficially known as the Stockbrokers Battalion.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Steve Law - www.greatwarmedals.com
