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Military service
Service number:
C/58851
Age:
26
Rank:
Trooper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Fort Garry Horse, R.C.A.C.
Division:
10th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
June 14, 1918
Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 1, 1941
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
August 17, 1944
Caen, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. C. 16.
Additional information
Son of Alice Taylor (1997 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother) of Ottawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Trooper Richard Vernon Taylor
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Inscription
Inscription to the memory of Trooper RICHARD TAYLOR on the family grave marker in Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario. -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Bayeux War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Alice Taylor was the National Silver Cross Mother in 1991. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Alice Taylor was the National Silver Cross Mother in 1991. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Trooper Richard Vernon Taylor
Digital gallery of
Trooper Richard Vernon Taylor
Digital gallery of
Trooper Richard Vernon Taylor
Digital gallery of
Trooper Richard Vernon Taylor
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 459 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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