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Son of William John Mahaffy Taylor and Stella Bertha Taylor, of 49 Heath St. West, Toronto, Ontario. He was attending Trinity College, Oxford, when war broke out and he joined the Battalion on its arrival in England.
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
Harbord Collegiate Institute program for Remembrance Day 1931. Listing the names of the school's Fallen.
Submitted by BGen (ret) G Young, 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project.
Dileas Gu Brath
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
Photo showing Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor 15th Battalion CEF. Killed during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, April 24,1915. No known grave.
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
Geoff Taylor, the Athletic Director at the University of Toronto, December 1913.
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
Geoff Taylor as a member of the University of Toronto Rugby Team 1912.
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
Geoff Taylor as a member of the University of Toronto Rugby Team 1910.
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
Officers of the 48th Highlanders from "The Red Watch - With the First Canadian Division in Flanders" written by Colonel J.A. Currie, M.P. Published in Toronto in 1916 and dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell in Flanders. Lt. Taylor is in the top row, fifth over from the left.
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921.
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
From the Toronto Star for 1 May 1915.
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
The Varsity War Supplement, University of Toronto, July 1915.
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
Honour Roll from The Varsity War Supplement, University of Toronto, July 1915.
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
The 1914-15 Star Trio and Memorial Cross attributed to Lieut. Taylor killed at Ypres in 1915.
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home.
Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home.
Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home.
Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home.
Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada). Submitted by Capt V Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
One of two memorial plaques dedicated on 24 April 2010 to commemorate those members of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) who fell during the 2nd Battle of Ypres 22-26 April 1915. This memorial plaque is located on in the town of St Julien. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
One of two memorial plaques dedicated on 24 April 2010 to commemorate those members of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) who fell during the 2nd Battle of Ypres 22-26 April 1915. This memorial plaque is located on Gravenstafel Ridge. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
Menin Gate panel where Lieutenant G. Taylor is commemorated. Photo by BGen Young (ret) and submitted by Capt (ret) V Goldman of the 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Aura Lee Club Toronto
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
From the Daily Colonist of May 8, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y128uvic#mode/1up
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Harbord Collegiate Institute program for Remembrance Day 1931. Listing the names of the school's Fallen. Submitted by BGen (ret) G Young, 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project. Dileas Gu Brath
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Photo showing Lieutenant Geoffrey Barron Taylor 15th Battalion CEF. Killed during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, April 24,1915. No known grave.
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Geoff Taylor, the Athletic Director at the University of Toronto, December 1913.
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Geoff Taylor as a member of the University of Toronto Rugby Team 1912.
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Geoff Taylor as a member of the University of Toronto Rugby Team 1910.
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Officers of the 48th Highlanders from "The Red Watch - With the First Canadian Division in Flanders" written by Colonel J.A. Currie, M.P. Published in Toronto in 1916 and dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell in Flanders. Lt. Taylor is in the top row, fifth over from the left.
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"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921.
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From the Toronto Star for 1 May 1915.
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The Varsity War Supplement, University of Toronto, July 1915.
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Honour Roll from The Varsity War Supplement, University of Toronto, July 1915.
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The 1914-15 Star Trio and Memorial Cross attributed to Lieut. Taylor killed at Ypres in 1915.
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In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me
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In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me
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In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me
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In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me
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Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada). Submitted by Capt V Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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One of two memorial plaques dedicated on 24 April 2010 to commemorate those members of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) who fell during the 2nd Battle of Ypres 22-26 April 1915. This memorial plaque is located on in the town of St Julien. DILEAS GU BRATH
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One of two memorial plaques dedicated on 24 April 2010 to commemorate those members of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) who fell during the 2nd Battle of Ypres 22-26 April 1915. This memorial plaque is located on Gravenstafel Ridge. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Menin Gate panel where Lieutenant G. Taylor is commemorated. Photo by BGen Young (ret) and submitted by Capt (ret) V Goldman of the 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Aura Lee Club Toronto
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From the Daily Colonist of May 8, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y128uvic#mode/1up
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From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 38 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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