TAYLOR, Thomas Christie

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Rank: 
Gunner
Unit / Base: 
4 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Artillery
Service: 
Army
Number: 
815495
Died : 
Sunday, June 22, 1947
Died in the UK
Age: 
36
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Norfolk, Norwich Cemetery
Private Thomas Taylor died in the United Kingdom. Son of David Air Taylor and Annie Taylor; husband of Florence Elizebeth Taylor, of Norwich [1].
Service
1930 attested into the Royal Artillery; 16 September 1934 to Army Reserve; 16 April 1939 rejoined from Army Reserve [2].
9 April 1940 serving with 30 Field Regt., R.A. (British Expeditionary Force) reported as dangerously ill [3].
19 August 1942 listed as participating in the Dieppe Raid [4].
7 January 1944 discharged (Para 390 (xv1) King's Regs. [2].
 
Sources
[1] CWGC.
[2] RA Attestation Registers for 1930.
[3] Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/11.
[4] Partial nominal roll for Dieppe in archive.
 
Notes
Remembered on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database. Precise cause of death not known by this archive.
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 
'Roll of Honour since 1946'
Additional content: 
Dieppe - Operation Jubilee
Archive pages : 
No 4 Commando

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