Claude Joseph TAYLOR

TAYLOR, Claude Joseph

Service Number: 587
Enlisted: 28 December 1914
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 4th Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron
Born: Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia, April 1886
Home Town: Rockdale, Rockdale, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Tailor
Died: Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia, 16 January 1958, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW
CATHOLIC 2-70. 74.
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World War 1 Service

28 Dec 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 587, 12th Light Horse Regiment
13 Jun 1915: Involvement Private, 587, 12th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
13 Jun 1915: Embarked Private, 587, 12th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Suevic, Sydney
29 Aug 1915: Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 6th Light Horse Regiment
7 Jul 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 4th Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron
16 Nov 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 587, 4th Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron, 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served and suffered during The Great War, now resting at Sandgate Cemetery, not Forgotten.

64 years ago today, on the 18th February 1958, Private Claude Joseph Taylor, 4th Australian Machine Gun Squadron (Reg No-587), tailor from 'Hermes', Watkin Street, Rockdale, New South Wales, father of two (Cyril & Nev), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 70. CATHOLIC 2-70. 74.

Born at Gunnedah, New South Wales on the ? ? 1888 to George and Rosannah (Rosemary) E Taylor; husband of Sarah Elizabeth Taylor nee Rule (married 29.12.1920, Walcha, N.S.W., died 1969, sleeping here)

Claude returned home August 1919, being discharged on the 16th November 1919.

Mr. Taylor’s name possibly inscribed on the St Peters Town Hall First World War Honour Roll. Name should have been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

There is an Individual Memorial Plaque placed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of Claude’s service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

Lest We Forget.

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