Edgar Taylor

Private. 35620. 16th Battalion. Northumberland Fusilliers.

Born: 1886 in Halifax.

Son of James and Matilda.

Brother of Emma, the late John William, and Grace.

Husband of Edith and father of one child.

Address: 1 Long Croft St. Golcar.

Occupation: Teaser at Pearson Bros, Victoria Mills, Golcar.

Enlisted July 1916.

Died 11th December 1917. Aged 31.

Buried at DozinghemMillitary Cemetery, XV. F. 5. West Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Edgar had been invalided home at the beginning of 1917 with Trench Fever and returned to France in May. On Saturday 1" December Edith received a letter from an army Chaplain to say that Edgar had been wounded in the side and was in a critical condition and everything was being done to save his life. He was in the 61 Casualty Clearing Station in France. Unfortunately news came later that he was unable to be saved.

The area was outside the front held by the Commonwealth forces in the First World War, but during July 1917, in readiness for the forthcoming offensive, groups of casualty clearing stations were placed at three positions and called by the troops- Mendinghem, Dozinghem and Bandaghem. The military cemetery was used until early 1918 and contains 3,174 burials.

His brother John William Taylor was killed in action in February 1917.