Service Details
Name:
 TAYLOR
Given Name:
 ANDREW
Initials:
 A
Service No:
 3785
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 4th Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "D" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1917-09-21
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Age:
 32
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Menin Road)
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
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Ieper, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 15 - 16 and 16A.

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