TAYLOR Albert

  • First Name(s):
    Albert 
  • Surname:
    TAYLOR
  • Service Number:
    9715
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    6th Battalion
  • Unit:
    Z Company
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    6th August 1915
  • Age At Death:
    31
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Helles Memorial, Turkey, Panel 104 to 113.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Phoebe Taylor, 59 Park St., Lye, Stourbridge; husband of Eliza Maria Mobberley (formerly Taylor), 42 Waste Bank, Lye, Stourbridge

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

TAYLOR Albert Is Named On These Memorials

Lye and Wollescote War Memorial
Lye Christ Church Window
Wollescote School

Further Information About TAYLOR Albert

Albert Taylor was a pre-war regular soldier who was probably in the Reserve and called up to join his old Battalion, the 4th Worcesters, when they returned from India. They were among those sent to Gallipoli to capture the peninsula from the Turks. Although the initial landing was a success, the British forces failed to reach the crest of the main ridge and the campaign became a stalemate. Reinforcements arrived to assist with a new landing at Suvla Bay. At the same time the Worcesters led a major diversionary attack on the Turks at the village of Krithia on the 6th August. This was their third attempt to break through the Turkish defences at this point and it was another failure. Private Albert Taylor was one of over 700 casualties on this dire day, most of them killed in action.

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Credits: Researched by The Black Country Society.