Military service
Burial/memorial information
Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45
Digital gallery of Sergeant Richard John Taylor
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Memorial
Memorial to the crew of the crashed Wellington bomber in the churchyard of St John the Baptist’s Church, Mayfield near Ashbourne -
Cemetery
View looking towards the crash site on the tree line beyond the boundary of the churchyard -
Grave marker
Photo provided by The Commonwealth Roll Of Honour Project. Volunteers Mike and Dale Symmonds -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Family Photo
Richard and his family. Richard, at 5 years old, is in the bottom row with his sister Marguerite. The other family members, left to right, include his brother Herbert, brother George, father Richard, and mother Lucy, holding baby Marie. -
War Medal
War Medal (awarded posthumously). -
Group Photo
Sergeant Richard John Taylor on the right, with his brother Private Herbert Joseph Taylor (who also died in WW2, on September 5th. 1944, in Italy, age 27). -
Photo of his parents
Richard's mother Lucy and father Richard. -
Group Photo
Left to right, Richard’s sister Marguerite, mother Lucy and sister Marie. -
Roll of honour
City of Toronto Roll of Honour, in memory of Sgt. Richard John Taylor. -
Medal
Defence Medal (awarded posthumously). -
Medal
Defence Medal (awarded posthumously). -
Medal
War Medal (awarded posthumously). -
Memorial
Sergeant Richard John Taylor is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Richard John Taylor is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of RICHARD JOHN TAYLOR
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of RICHARD JOHN TAYLOR
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Other
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Richard John Taylor
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Richard John Taylor
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Richard John Taylor
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Richard John Taylor
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Richard John Taylor
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Richard John Taylor
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Richard John Taylor
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Richard John Taylor
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Richard John Taylor
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 459 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom
Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.
In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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