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Military service
Service number:
3231312
Age:
32
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
19th Bn .
Birth:
June 22, 1886
Reay, Muskoka Township, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 22, 1918
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 16, 1918
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Son of Edwin Taylor and Margaret McLeod Taylor of Reay, Muskoka Township.
Siblings Marion, Angus, Edith, Robert, Clarence, Ronald and Gladys.
Digital gallery of Private William Taylor
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Photo of William Taylor
Uncle William Taylor, brother to my grandmother Gladys Taylor. -
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)
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Private William Taylor
Digital gallery of
Private William Taylor
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 511 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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