Taylor M B Pte 7155 3rd Coldstream Guards
TAYLOR, MILES BRUNSKILL, Private, No. 7155, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Taylor, for many years a railway guard on the London & North Western Railway, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Miles Thompson; b. Lancaster, 18 Oct. 1886; educ. Christ Church School, Lancaster; enlisted in the 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 26 Feb. 1907. In the Reserve on the outbreak of war he was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; served in France and Flanders, passing unhurt through engagements at Mons, Landrecies, Lowey and Fontenay, but was seriously wounded by shrapnel, 8 Sept. 1914, and died at La Tretoire the same day. He m. at Christ Church, Lancaster, 30 Sept. 1912, Margaret (4, Trafalgar Road, Lancaster), yst. dau. of the late Robert Turner, of Maze Lisburn, Ireland, and had two daus. Hilda Irene, b. 21 June, 1913; and Annie Norah Myles, b. 30 Dec. 1914. Three of his brothers are now (1916) on active service, and one a munition worker.