{"id":4449,"date":"2023-08-08T20:19:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=4449"},"modified":"2023-08-08T20:19:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:19:33","slug":"taylor-r-f-2nd-lt-5th-kings-shropshire-light-infantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/taylor-r-f-2nd-lt-5th-kings-shropshire-light-infantry\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor R F 2nd Lt 5th Kings Shropshire Light Infantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4450\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Taylor-R-F-2nd-Lt-5th-Kings-Shropshire-Light-Infantry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4450\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Taylor-R-F-2nd-Lt-5th-Kings-Shropshire-Light-Infantry-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Taylor-R-F-2nd-Lt-5th-Kings-Shropshire-Light-Infantry-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Taylor-R-F-2nd-Lt-5th-Kings-Shropshire-Light-Infantry.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor R F 2nd Lt 5th Kings Shropshire Light Infantry<\/p><\/div>\n<p>TAYLOR, RONALD FRANCIS, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. King&#8217;s Shropshire L.I., 4th s. of Alfred Taylor, of Starston Place, Harleston, Norfolk, J.P., by his wife, Anna Enfield, dau. of Septimus Dowson, of Southtown, Great Yarmouth; b. Starston Place, afsd., 29 Feb. 1888; educ. St. Andrew&#8217;s School (Rev. E. L. Browne), Eastbourne; Malvern College, and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1909); and after a short period as an assistant master at St. Andrew&#8217;s School, joined the firm of Oslers, Birmingham; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 5th Shropshire L.I. 28 Sept. 1914; went to France 21 May, 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 9 Aug. 1915, during the attack on Hooge. He was in command of an advance trench, a shell killing him instantaneously while he was endeavouring to bind up the wound of one of his corporals. Lieut. Taylor was a good athlete, and an all-round sportsman. He was a member of the Malvern College Cricket XI. and a fine shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAYLOR, RONALD FRANCIS, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. King&#8217;s Shropshire L.I., 4th s. of Alfred Taylor, of Starston Place, Harleston, Norfolk, J.P., by his wife, Anna Enfield, dau. of Septimus Dowson, of Southtown, Great Yarmouth; b. Starston Place, afsd., 29 Feb. 1888; educ. St. Andrew&#8217;s School (Rev. E. L. Browne), Eastbourne; Malvern College, and Pembroke College, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kings-shropshire-light-infantry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4451,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions\/4451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}