- First Name(s):AnthonyJohnDalzell
- Surname:TAYLOR
- Service Number:Unknown
- Rank:
Sub-Lieutenant
- Conflict:WW2
- Service:Navy
- Naval Service:Royal Navy
- Ship:HM Submarine P222
- Former Units:None
- Date of Death:21st December 1942
- Age At Death:
- Place of Death:Unknown
- Place of Burial:Commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, England, Panel 62, Column 1.
- Place of Birth:Unknown
- Home Town:Unknown
- Casualty's Relatives:
Son of Edmund Collins Taylor and Evelyn Mary Dorlisa Taylor, of West Kirby, Cheshire
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Anthony Taylor was born in 1921. He attended Malvern College in House 8 from 1935 to 1939.
The Malvernian, July 1943:
Roll of Honour
Anthony John Dalzell Taylor. Sixth Form. Sub-Lieut. R.N. Served for 2 years in a Battleship, volunteered for submarines. Prseumed lost in Jan. 1943.
Submarine P222 sailed from Gibraltar on 30th November 1942 for a patrol off Naples. Messages were received from her on 7th December after which date nothing further was heard from the submarine. When she failed to arrive in Algiers on her due date of 21st December, the Italians claimed to have sunk a submarine in the Bay of Naples on 12th December. This was never officially confirmed.
Submarine information researched by Sandra Taylor. Source for submarine information: http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3440.html Link still valid 30th October 2024.
Anthony Taylor has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
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Credits: School records courtesy and copyright of Malvern College.