Name
William Edward Taylor
17 January 1879
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/06/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Army Service Corps
482nd Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATBY MEMORIAL
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
William Edward Taylor was born 17 January 1879 in Bishop's Stortford to Marshall and Margaret Augusta Taylor and baptised on 14 February 1879 at Hockerill, Herts. On the 1901 Census, he was an undergraduate at Cambridge but had returned to live in Bishop's Stortford by the 1911 Census at Wharf House, Causeway, with his parents and sister (& servants) and working as a solicitors' clerk. He later lived at Grange Road, Bishop's Stortford.
Wartime Service
William was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps. He was on board the H T Cameronian on 2 June 1917 when it was torpedoed and sunk off Alexandria. At the time, the ship was carrying a large number of mules, with a few soldiers to look after them. Unfortunately a number of men were asleep in hammocks on the lower deck. The explosion flooded this deck and all the men were drowned, the ship sinking in five minutes. Those lost included the Captain, two army officers and 30 other ranks, and one officer and nine men of the crew (and presumably all the poor animals as well).
Additional Information
His pay owing of £29 4s 6d and war gratuity of £5 was paid to his executor Frederick William Carter (ship broker), who was also granted probate. Effects £961 16s 4d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
