Capt. Reginald George Taylor . British Army Middlesex Regiment from Hendon, London
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RET Taylor . British Army RET Taylor served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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RG Taylor . British Army RG Taylor served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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RMS Taylor . British Army RMS Taylor served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Robert R. Taylor . Royal Air Force RAF Little Rissington
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Capt. (from 1941) Robert Gladstone Taylor . British Army 113th Z AA Battery Royal Artillery from Blandford Forum My grandfather was ranching in Canada when he volunteered in 1915 to serve in the artillery. He fought on the Somme, settled in England at the end of the First World War, then was a reservist. He rejoined the Royal Artillery in 1940, was re-gazetted Lieutenant in August 1940, and then promoted to Captain. He served with 113th Anti Aircraft Z Battery near Cardiff throughout 1941, up to February 1942. I know his movements from the hundreds of letters he wrote to his family in Blandford Forum, Dorset, which we still have.
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Lt. Robert Gladstone Taylor . British Army 912th Motor Transport Company. Royal Army Service Corps from Blandford Forum Bob Taylor should have retired from military service at the age of 50 in 1941. Instead he continued to serve for a year as temporary Captain of an anti-aircraft battery at Neath in Wales. He was transferred in March 1942 to the RASC, where he reverted to Lieutenant and was posted to 912th Motor Transport Company. According to family memories he was in Berlin when the war in Europe ended, and exchanged sabres with a Russian cavalry officer in celebration of the Armistice.
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CQMS. Robert Taylor . British Army 505th Field Company Royal Engineers from Newcastle Bob Taylor enlisted from the Territorial Army aged eighteen when he weighed just 9st 11 lbs. He turned down the offer of being enrolled into the Officer programme and entered the Second World war having been made up to the rank of Corporal in June 1939.
He had been mobilised as a sapper in the 505th Field Company Royal Engineers, from a period in the TA in April 1939, and had gained his first promotion whilst on the fifteen days annual training at Lancaster.
He took part in the British Expeditionary Force that was sent to France on the 28th January 1940 before being taken off the beaches at Dunkirk on the 1st June 1940.
He remembered seeing himself and his comrades on pathe newsreel footage coming up a gangway which he saw many years later. Later he was promoted again to CQMS and seems to have been and posted to the 624th Field Park Company and he spent a year and five months in Germany with them.
He wasn't demobbed from the Royal Engineers until March 1946, having been their interpreter and celebrating his 21st birthday aboard a ship en route to Aden. On the board ship Bob had taught groups of soldiers how to tie knots and conversational German during the very long sea voyage they endured on the way to the Middle East. He achieved the rank of sergeant and was then awarded the warrant officer post of CQMS having survived Tobruk and El Alamein. After France he was posted to Egypt, Cyprus, North Africa, Palestine, Iraq and then Germany till the end of the war.
The stories he told matched much of Private Louvain's fabulous diary, my father talked of being the regiments interpreter as he spoke good French and German, even down to the scattering in the waddies, where he went one way as his driver had been shot in the arm, and his mate Stuart Ettles went the other and was captured, only to escape from a train in Italy some months later. His photos show him during various stages of the war. The main photo I have does not have a record of whether this was 505th or 624th Field Coy.
We know that during WWII Bob and his mate Stuart Ettles had been in the same unit of the Royal Engineers the 505th Field Coy. and were in the desert together when surprised by German patrols, they were separated by their decision to go in opposite directions in their attempt to avoid the enemy. (the extract even mentions the situation) Ettles choice ended up with him being captured and held as a POW whilst Bob escaped. They had been in different trucks, Bob's driver was shot in the arm and he had to take over the controls, Ettles was caught and later escaped after he picked the lock of a goods truck whilst traveling through Italy by train, he found refuge on a farm and spent the rest of the war up in the hills with an Italian family who sheltered him.
Until 1988 he held the photographic record of the unit, and on the day of his funeral it was passed on to another old soldier from the same unit who had attended the church.
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Sgt. Ronald Taylor . Royal Air Force 103 Squadron from Sunderland (d.21st Jan 1943) Ronald Taylor served with 103 Squadron.
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Cpl. Ronald Taylor . British Army 1st Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry from Bridgend When Dad, Ronald Taylor joined up, he went up to Shrewsbury for his basic training. He was in the gym and the sergeant sent him up the rope to touch the ceiling. After he came down, the sergeant said, "Did you do it, Taff?" "Aye", said my Dad. "Up again Taff". The sergeant sent him up 4 times and each time the old man said "Aye". Next the sergeant points to his sleeve and asks, "What's these then Taff?" "Stripes", says Dad. "And what do they mean then?" "You're a sergeant". "So, what do you say next time, Taff?" "Yes sergeant". He sent him up again and finally Dad said, "Yes sergeant". "Right, off you go then Taff." That was his first week.
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Able Sea. Ryall William Taylor . Royal Navy HMS President III from Middlesbrough (d.12th Sep 1941) Ryall Taylor's War Grave is in Acklam Cemetery, Middlesbrough.
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S Taylor . British Army S Taylor served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sam Taylor . Civil Defence Manchester. ARP I am attempting to find out about my uncle Sam Taylor who was in the ARP during WW2. Sam had his legs blown off during a bombing raid in Manchester, he received a Medal but I do not know what medal he received.
Can anyone please help me find out more about my uncle Sam?
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Pte. Sidney Wilfred Taylor . British Army 1st/5th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment from Leicester My Granddad, Sidney Taylor, served with the 1st/5th Leicestershire Regiment. In 1940 he went to fight in Norway, he was 39 years old and left a wife and three kids at home. He was fighting a rearguard action and was taken prisoner. He survived being a POW but sadly died in 1945 of a heart attack aged 44 not long after he came home. My Dad was only seven years old at the time and never got to know his Dad. I would love to know more about my Granddad and what POW camp he was in.
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SS Taylor . British Army SS Taylor served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sgt. Stanley William John Taylor . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 15 Squadron (d.4th Dec 44)
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Sgt. Stanley William John Taylor . Royal Air Force 15 Squadron (d.4th Dec 1944) Stanley Taylor was an Air Gunner with 15 Squadron, RAF during WW2.
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Stanley Taylor . Royal Navy from Leeds
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T Taylor . British Army T Taylor served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Captain Thomas Taylor . British Army 9th Battalion Border Regiment from Thornaby on Tees
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Thomas Taylor . British Army 14th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment. (d.1917 ) Brothers, Thomas Taylor and Charles Richard Taylor born in Marylebone London joined the British Army in 1915. They were both a part of the 14th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment (Bantams). Thomas died in France in 1917 in battle. Charles Richard saw his only full blood sibling die.
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Sgt. Tom Taylor . RAAF bomb aimer 460 Sqd. from Australia (d.30th May 1943)
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Sgt. Victor Norman Taylor . from Bournville, Birmingham Victor Taylor was a Prisoner of War in Germany.
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F/O W B Taylor . RCAF 419 (Moose) Squadron F/O W B Taylor C26499 was a pilot based at Middleton St George now Teeside airport and flew Halifax's from this base for 419 RCAF Moose Squadron which included VR;
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W Taylor . British Army 9th Lancers W Taylor served with the 9th Lancers British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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W Taylor . British Army Gordon Highlanders W Taylor served with the Gordon Highlanders British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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W Taylor . British Army 44th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment W Taylor served with the 44th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Flt.Sgt. Walter Frederick Taylor . Royal Air Force from Torquay Freddie Taylor was my father and I know very little about his war efforts apart from what I have been told by my mother. I was told that he was a rear gunner during the war. I was born in 1946 and during that time he served at Huntingdon and then St Eval in Cornwall until the camp was closed and he moved to St Columb until he was demobbed. I have been told he was 'grounded' after the war due to severe sinusitis and an operation for this condition. I was also told he could not cope with being grounded and was demobbed in the 1950's. I have not seen him since I was 11 so know very little more. He is probably dead now, but I should really like to know more about what he did during the war and where, with whom and when he ended his days. He has a sister now 92, who still lives in Torquay, Devon.
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Walter Taylor . United States Army 2nd Btn, Coy F. 135th Inf. Regiment. My father, Walter Taylor, was held in Stalag 2B for 15 months. He was a member of the US 34th Inf., 135th Reg., Coy. F, 2nd Battalion. He was captured 2-4-44 at Cassino, Italy. Also was in a work camp in Stolp, Poland and escaped on the Black Death March with Samuel Tolley and British POW, Jimmy Bryson. Anyone remember him?
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WE Taylor . British Army WE Taylor served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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