The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H S Taylor


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Private Horace Stephen TAYLOR, G/8127, 12th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of gastric ulcer, Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, 20th May 1916.

Born Staplehurst, Kent, son of James & Eliza Taylor.


1911 Census - 1 Thorners Yard, Upper Stone Street, Maidstone, Kent - Horace Stephen Taylor, head, age 35, single, town carter, worker, born Staplehurst, Kent; Horace Taylor Pearson, son, age 4, born Maidstone, Kent; Caroline Pearson, housekeeper, age 44, married 5? years, 1 child still alive, born Maidstone, Kent.


Enlisted Maidstone, Kent.  Resided Maidstone, Kent.

Widow, Caroline Taylor, born 17th December 1864.

Children - Horace Taylor Pearson, born 21st May 1906.

Buried at Maidstone Cemetery, 1. OO. 280., Maidstone, Kent.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War show Service No. as G/8127; CWGC web site shows G/8218.


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