Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper clipping – From the Daily Colonist of September 19, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y242uvic/page/n8/mode/1up?view=theater.

Newspaper clipping – From the Vancouver Daily Province September 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of Kenneth Taylor – 700 Major Kenneth Churchill Craige Taylor (RMC 1905), D.S.O. 29th Bn C.E.F. was killed on Sept. 11th, 1916 in the advance on Courcellette. He was gazetted Major shortly before his death. He entered the Royal Military College, Kingston in 1905 and graduated in 1908 with the highest standing in his year, thus entitling him to one of four Commissions in the Imperial Army awarded each year to the first 4 Cadets. He, however, decided not to enter the army and served for a short time with the Canadian Pacific Railway, after which he articled to J.A. Coryell, B.C.L.S. at Grand Forks. He obtained his commission as a BC Land Surveyor in 1911 and was in charge of Government Survey parties working in the Upper Fraser and Naas River Valleys. In October, 1914, he and his brother, now Major T.A.H. Taylor O.B.E., M.C., returned from an extended survey in the interior of Vancouver Island to find that war had been declared almost 3 months previously. Both joined the 29th Battalion as Lieutenants. Kenneth was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in Jan., 1916 “for conspicuous gallantry in leading a bombing raid on the enemy trenches, when, although wounded, Captain Taylor disposed of several of the enemy with revolver, bomb and bayonet and then withdrew his men most coolly and assisted the wounded.”

Photo of KENNETH CHURCHILL CRAIGIE TAYLOR – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Group Photo – Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

Photo of KENNETH CHURCHILL CRAIGIE TAYLOR – Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

Memorabilia – Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.

Badge – 700 Major Kenneth Churchill Craigie Taylor DSO (RMC 1905) was the son of Archibald Dunbar Taylor and Isobel Churchill (nee Craigie) Taylor, of Kerrisdale, Vancouver, British Columbia. He served with the Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment), 29th Bn. He died 12 Sep 1916. He was buried in the Sunken Road Cemetery, Contalmaison, Somme, France.

Photo of KENNETH CHURCHILL CRAIGIE TAYLOR – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Honour Roll – From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926.

Newspaper Clipping

Newspaper Clipping – From the Supplement to the London Gazette for 15 March 1916, page 2876.

Newspaper clipping – Supplementary information about family background: Father's newspaper obituary, 1942

Memorial – Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 700 Major Kenneth Churchill Craigie Taylor DSO (RMC 1905) was the son of Archibald Dunbar Taylor and Isobel Churchill (nee Craigie) Taylor, of Kerrisdale, Vancouver, British Columbia. He servde with the Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment), 29th Bn. He died 12 Sep 1916. He was buried in the Sunken Road Cemetery, Contalmaison, Somme, France.

Memorial Stained Glass – Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 700 Major Kenneth Churchill Craigie Taylor DSO (RMC 1905) was the son of Archibald Dunbar Taylor and Isobel Churchill (nee Craigie) Taylor, of Kerrisdale, Vancouver, British Columbia. He servde with the Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment), 29th Bn. He died 12 Sep 1916. He was buried in the Sunken Road Cemetery, Contalmaison, Somme, France.

Memorial Doll – Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 700 Major Kenneth Churchill Craigie Taylor DSO (RMC 1905) was the son of Archibald Dunbar Taylor and Isobel Churchill (nee Craigie) Taylor, of Kerrisdale, Vancouver, British Columbia. He servde with the Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment), 29th Bn. He died 12 Sep 1916. He was buried in the Sunken Road Cemetery, Contalmaison, Somme, France.

Memorial – Memorial arch, Royal Military College, Kingston

Memorial – Memorial stair, Royal Military College, Kingston

Grave Marker – Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England