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Military service
Service number:
A/21888
Age:
23
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
July 4, 1919
Chatham, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 18, 1939
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
4. B. 10.
Additional information
Son of William and Elizabeth Taylor of Chatham, Ontario. Husband of Jane Taylor, of Gateacre, Lancashire, England.
Digital gallery of Sergeant William Gordon Taylor
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Photo of William Gordon Taylor
From the book; …and they never came back. The story of the C. V. S (Chatham Vocational School) students who fought and died in World War 11. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me, with the permission of the author Peter N. Stanojevic. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Windsor Daily Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Calais Canadian War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Entrance - Calais Canadian War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Calais Canadian War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of WILLIAM GORDON TAYLOR
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Gordon Taylor
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Gordon Taylor
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Gordon Taylor
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Gordon Taylor
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Gordon Taylor
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Gordon Taylor
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 119 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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