In Memory Of

TAYLOR, ANDREW

Service Details
Age:
 32
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 3785
Rank:
 Corporal
Unit:
 4th Regt.
Unit 2:
 "D" Coy.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1917-09-21
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Menin Road)
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 15 - 16 and 16A.
Cemetery:
 YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Ieper, West-Vlaanderen
Country:
 Belgium
Additional Information
Son of Alexander and Isabella (nee Driscoll) Taylor, of Glasgow, Scotland. Husband of Mary Helena Augusta Taylor, of South Coast Junction. He had four children. Born Kilcaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland. A carpenter with Hulett's Sugar Refinery, South Coast Junction. Served with the DLI in the Bambatha Rebellion 1906; also, with the SA Engineering Corps; served with the 4th Regiment in France & Belgium; WIA at Delville Wood July 1916; WIA (GSW right leg ? severe) during Battle of Arras 9 April 1917. His brother also died in service. Commemorated on the Durban Cenotaph; St. Mary's Anglican Church, Greyville & the South Coast Junction & Seaview WWI Memorials