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Military service
Service number:
3032072
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
September 16, 1889
Death:
September 27, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Willard L. and Cordelia Taylor, of 649, Central Avenue, London, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Leroy Taylor
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Photo of Leroy Taylor
Enlisted January 15, 1918, with the 1st Depot Battalion at Toronto. Transferred to the 3rd Battalion in France. Reported missing a later declared killed in action. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press January 1919. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Leroy Taylor
Digital gallery of
Private Leroy Taylor
Digital gallery of
Private Leroy Taylor
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 511 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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