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Lieutenant Thomas George Taylor

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Given name
Thomas George
Family name
Taylor
Gender
Male
Service number
992
Conflicts
First World War, 1914–18
Fate
Died of wounds (DOW)
Fate date
05 July 1917
Additional information
Last held rank
Lieutenant
Unit at embarkation
41st Battalion (Infantry)
Service
Australian Army - First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF)
Veteran Notes/Bio

1. Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) as "Killed" and Bygone Queanbeyan as, “Thomas George. Lieut 41st Bn (DCM) KIA France 1917 (B0 (also Boer War)".

2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: Not Applicable; POB: Bungendore: POE: Brisbane, Queensland; NOK: Wife: Emma Jane Taylor.

3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Sergeant; Unit: 41 Infantry Battalion (May 1916) ; Age: 38 ; Occupation: Farmer; DOE:17.12.1915 ; Embarked:18.05.1916.Sydney, HMAT A64 Demosthenes A64.

4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank: 2nd Lieutenant; Unit: 41 Battalion; DOE: 17.12.1915. DOW.5.07.1917 received at Messineson 2.7.1917, Belgium. Aged 43. Buried Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, France.

5. See: OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis .2007.ISBN:978-1-74027-487-6


6. Goulburn Evening Penny Post 19.7.1917 and Queanbeyan Age (Bungendore) 20.07.1917) reported the Death (KIA) of Tom Taylor in France. Details of his Boer War service where he was wounded noted.

7. See: BUNGENDORE & DISTRICT WAR MEMORIAL - SOUTH AFRICAN (BOER) WAR 1899-1902 ROLL OF HONOUR. Peter Hugonnet 2011.ISBN: 978-0-646-55612.

8. AWM Photograph P04371.001Studio portrait of Lieutenant Thomas George Taylor. His family history has it that he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) during the Boer War however there is no record of this in the London Gazette, "Recipients of the DCM 1855-1909 (P E Abbott) or "Official Record of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa (Murray)". The latter however records him as being one of a small number of men of the NSW Imperial Bushmen, who, worthy of recognition, were presented with Queen Alexandra's Pipe. After the outbreak of the First World War, he was one of five brothers who served, and enlisted on 17 December 1915, in Queensland.  He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 6 September 1916 and promoted to lieutenant on 22 May 1917.

9. In November 1918 in St Philip’s Church of England Bungendore, at ‘…a most impressive and affecting ceremony…’ two dedications were made including ‘…a magnificent brass cross, given by Mrs T.G. Taylor, to the memory of her husband Lieutenant T.G.Taylor...” The Hymn Stand in St Philips is also dedicated to Thos Geo Taylor.

10. Commemorated on the ROH in St Thomas' Anglian Church Carwoola, NSW, on the Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Panel 134 and in the Bungendore Cemetery on a small plaque on the side of the grave of William Charles Taylor and Robert Taylor.

11. Application to use Rising Sun Badge: On the 3rd of November 2015 the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge on a proposed street sign for "Taylor" in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations. This request was approved on 21 December 2015.

12. Last updated December 2015.

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