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Name William Taylor

Regiment 8th Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Service Rank and Number Pte 30411 (formerly 2914)

Military Cemetery/Memorial Basra Memorial

Ref No. of Grave or Memorial Panel 15

Country of Cemetery/Memorial Mesopotamia - now Iraq

Medals Awarded Victory and British War medals

Date and Circumstances of Death Died 21st January 1917 aged 46 (Killed in action in the field)

Biographical Details Known
He married Annie Griffiths at Gwernaffield on 23rd December 1899.

The 1901 census places the couple at Vownog (Sychdyn). He was 29 and a coal miner - below ground. Annie was 30. There were no children.

By the 1911 census the pair had moved to Gosmore Terrace, new Brighton, Mold. He was a hewer of coal.

This soldier was born in 1871 so he was much older than most serving men. His attestation papers signed 1st March 1915, indicate that he had served previously in 'The Buckley Engineers' which would have put him on the reservist list.