Dudley Ernest TAYLOR

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TAYLOR, Dudley Ernest

Service Numbers:	W41322, WX26060
Enlisted:	5 January 1942
Last Rank:	Staff Sergeant
Last Unit:	WW2 Light Horse Derived Units - Motor Regiments / Machine Gun Regiments /Armoured Car Regiments
Born:	Perth, Western Australia, 30 August 1921
Home Town:	Bunbury, Bunbury, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Junior Clerk
Died:	Mandurah, Western Australia, 13 January 2004, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

5 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, W41322, WW2 Light Horse Derived Units - Motor Regiments / Machine Gun Regiments /Armoured Car Regiments
8 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, WX26060
9 Apr 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, WX26060

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Staff Sergeant Dudley Ernest Taylor (Service No:WX26060) initially served in the ACMF (Corporal; W41322) with 10th Australian Light Horse from 5 January to 7 July 1942. He served in Bougainville from 1 December 1944 to 3 January 1946 and was attached to 5 Australian Commander Royal Engineers Works when he was Discharged on 9 April 1946.

Born in 1921 in Perth WA, Dudley was the fourth of six children of Ernest Gilbert Medlycott Taylor (b1889 at St Leonard's, NSW) and Amelia (Mil) Harriett Gilham (b1891 at Cavendish, Southern Grampians, Victoria). Ernest (a Reporter) and Mil married in 1911 in Coolgardie WA, where Ernest worked as a Clerk before moving his family to Perth.

Dudley worked as a Junior Clerk in Bunbury before enlisting in 1941, and following his Service, he worked in Geraldton and Perth as a Clerk/Railway Officer (WAGR). Dudley died in Mandurah WA in 1957.

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