Corporal 15479 James Taylor

Corporal James Taylor

Regiment/Unit: Machine Gun Corps - 114th Coy.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Previous Reg/Num: 6776, Connaught Rangers.

Age at death: 32
Date of death: 1st of August 1917 (Wednesday)
Born: Billinge, Lancs
Resided: Billinge, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Welsh Cemetery Caesar`s Nose - I. B. 13.

BMD details:
Marriage: 4th Qtr 1912 James Taylor to Jane McLoughlin at Birchley St Mary's RC, Billinge, Lancashire. Vol 8c - Page 197.

Family details:
Husband of Jane Taylor, of 29, Fair View, Billinge, Wigan.

Census details:
1891 - 6 years old schoolboy James is living at 28 Rainford Road, Billinge with parents Thomas (38), Sarah (36) and four siblings: Frank (12), Esther (8), Lawrence (3), Gertrude (1). 1901 - 16 years old 'Coal Miner - Gen Labourer' James is living at 43 Carr Mill Road, Billinge with parents Thomas (47), Sarah (45) and eight siblings: Mary (24), Francis (22), Esther (18), Laurence (13), Gertrude (11), Eleanor (8), Thomas C (7), Aloysuis (1). 1911 - Sees 26 years old 'Colliery Miner' James living at Mount Pleasant, Rainford Road, Billinge with parents Thomas (57), Sarah (55) and six siblings: Mary (34), Esther (28), Lawrence (23), Eleanor (18), Thomas Cuthbert (17), Aloysius (11).

Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=39]Remembered On The St. Aidan's C of E Church Memorial[/url]

James was born in Billinge on the 5th of March 1885 the fifth of ten children of Thomas and Sarah Taylor (nee Cunliffe), and was baptised on the 8th of March 1885 at St. Mary`s R.C. Church. He married Jane Mc Loughlin on the 30th of November 1912 at St. Mary`s Church and they lived at 29 Fair View. James enlisted at St. Helens and joined the Connaught Rangers but later was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. He was killed in action on Tuesday the 31st of July / Wednesday the 1st of August 1917 aged 32 years and is buried in the Welsh Cemetery (Ceasar`s Nose), Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave 1.B.13. His name is recorded on both St. Aidan`s C.E. Church and St. Mary`s R.C. Church Memorials and also two family grave headstones in St. Mary`s Churchyard, graves 1/45 and 2/16. Sources:- St. Helens Local History Library, Soldiers killed in the Great War; The Commonwealth War Graves Commission; St. Mary`s Church Registers. [url=http://sthelens-connect.net/sitefiles/billinge-history.pdf]Information Courtesy of The Billinge History Society[/url] [pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/JamesTaylor_15479_MGC.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Corporal Jame Taylor at Welsh Cemetery (Caesar`s Nose) (Photograph courtesy of Frederik Sohier)[/caption]