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Military service
Service number:
629355
Age:
21
Rank:
Company Sergeant Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
"D" Coy. 47th Bn.
Birth:
February 24, 1895
Death:
November 11, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of the late Rev. George William Taylor and Elizabeth Ann Taylor (nee Williams).
Digital gallery of Company Sergeant Major William Towle Taylor
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Inscription
Inscription - Vimy Memorial - August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Vimy Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial - August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Vimy Memorial
Vimy Memorial - August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial Plaque
This brass memorial plaque is inside St Luke's Church, Derby, England. The Helen Louisa & Edward Ernest Taylor mentioned on the dedication were sister & brother to William Taylor's father, George William Taylor. He was born in Derby & moved to Vancouver in 1882. -
Church
This is a view of St Luke's Church, Derby, England where the memorial to William Towle Taylor is located. He was born in Nanaimo B.C., & enlisted on 7th April 1915 at New Westminster B.C., having previously served 8 mths in the 6th D.C.O.R. He was a Civil Engineer by occupation. He gave his next-of-kin as Alfred James Towle Taylor of the Taylor Engineering Company of Vancouver. Alfred Taylor was a prominent engineering contractor & entrepreneur born in Victoria 8 years before William was born. -
Photo of William Towle Taylor
Sargeant Major William Towle Taylor. Photo taken November, 1915 Victoria, British Columbia -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of December 5, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y308uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Towle Taylor
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Towle Taylor
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Towle Taylor
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Towle Taylor
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Towle Taylor
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Towle Taylor
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Towle Taylor
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Towle Taylor
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 171 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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