Every Name a Story

G.H. Taylor 1918
Rank : Private

George Henry  Taylor

Every Name a Story

In Moyenneville (Two Tree) Cemetery, France is the Commonwealth War Grave of 42180 Private George Henry Taylor, serving with the 15th/17th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own) who died 27/03/1918.

The son of the late Frederick and Lilian Taylor, of Bedlington Colliery, Northumberland.

Carole Fife has provided the following:

George is named on the CWGC as George Heary, but is Henry in birth and Census records.. George was born in 1898 in Bedlington, the second son of Frederick and Lilian Taylor of 121 North Row Bedlington Station. He is buried in Moyenville (Two Tree) Cemetery near Arras. Of almost 50 graves here 20 are unidentified and nearly all belong to 15th West Yorkshire Regiment who held out at Moyenville for 36 hours in March 1918.

George Henry Taylor and his brother Arthur are remembered in Bedlington Station on B163.04 and in Bedlington on B15.06

First Name: George Henry

Last Name: Taylor

Service Number: 42180

Which War: First World War 1914-18

Died: 27/03/1918

Age: 20

Rank: Private

Regiment: West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

Served in: Army

Unit/Ship: 15th/17th Battalion

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