George Sutton Taylor

Name

George Sutton Taylor

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

01/07/1916
20

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
178
Lincolnshire Regiment
"A" Company, 10th Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Not Yet Researched

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 1 C.
France

UK & Other Memorials

Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth

Pre War

Born on 25 Nov 1895 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire son of Francis Peter and Ada Taylor (later Mrs. Woods of Peartree Lane, Fulstow, North Thoresby, Lincolnshire.) Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1905-11 he then worked for a fishing company in Grimsby.

Wartime Service

Enlisted on 17 Sep 1914 at Grimsby, entered France on 9 Jan 1916 and was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme near La Boiselle. He was buried there but his grave was subsequently lost.

Acknowledgments

Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association