Joseph Thomas Taylor

JOSEPH THOMAS TAYLOR

1403 Private, Joseph Thomas Taylor 1/5th Battalion Cheshire Regiment . Born 1892 at Northwich, the son of Joseph and Jane Ann (nee, Reade) Taylor living at Foundry Street and then 42, Water Street in 1911.. His younger brother John William was also killed during the war. As a young man, Joseph was in 2nd Bollington Boy Scouts, he received a certificate from Baden Powell, for saving the lives of a woman and a boy from drowning. He was educated at Water Street Day School. he worked as a cotton piecer in the spinning room of the Adelphi Mill, Bollington, and was a regular attender at the Wesleyan Chapel . Joseph married Elizabeth M. Bexson in the last quarter of 1912; they set up home together at 5 Lord Street, Bollington. When he enlisted, Joseph was employed at Clarence Mill.

Joseph attested at Bollington, he has already served 3 years with the 7th Cheshire’s (T.F.) After his course of training he volunteered to go to the front with the 5th Battalion, he was drafted to France, 14/02/1915. His death was confirmed by several letters home to friends, that Joseph, who had been for a wash, was returning to the trenches when a shrapnel shell burst in front of him, killing him instantly, 19/07/1915, he was aged 22 years.

Medals: 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal

Private, Joseph Thomas Taylor is buried at Spoilbank Cemetery, West Vlaanderen, Belgium
C.W.G.C Ref: – I.H.13