Sgt. Taylor was serving with 57 Sqdn. He was a crew member of Wellington III X3599 DX- which took off on a training exercise and crashed in poor visibility near Newcastle, Count Down.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1942; W.R. Chorley; 1994; Midland Counties Publication, ISBN 0 904597 89 X
He is remembered in Heaton Grammar School H91.02
