TAYLOR, FRANK
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Trooper
14380875
24/10/1944
20
15th Regt. Reconnaissance Corps, RAC
I. D. 15.
In everloving memory. He died doing his duty:
May we be worthy. Mam, Dad and brother Georgie
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Son of Tom and Ellen Taylor, of Wrightington, Lancashire.
Died during the battles around the village of Best and initially buried there.
From the service records of Frank Taylor, the following account can be reconstructed.
Frank Taylor was born on 7 September 1924 in Pemberton, Lancashire. He was described as being 5 feet 10 inches tall, with brown hair and grey-blue eyes. He was unmarried.
He enlisted in the British Army on 23 November 1942, joining the Reconnaissance Corps. Frank was deployed to North-West Europe on 9 June 1944 as part of the Allied campaign following the Normandy landings.
Frank Taylor was killed in action on 24 October 1944
