{"id":4479,"date":"2023-08-09T07:47:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T06:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=4479"},"modified":"2023-08-09T07:47:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T06:47:41","slug":"gawan-taylor-f-2nd-lt-2nd-york-and-lancs-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/gawan-taylor-f-2nd-lt-2nd-york-and-lancs-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gawan-Taylor F 2nd Lt 2nd York And Lancs Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4480\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Gawan-Taylor-F-2nd-Lt-2nd-York-Lancs-Regt-The-Sphere-2nd-Oct-1915.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4480\" class=\"wp-image-4480\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Gawan-Taylor-F-2nd-Lt-2nd-York-Lancs-Regt-The-Sphere-2nd-Oct-1915-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Gawan-Taylor-F-2nd-Lt-2nd-York-Lancs-Regt-The-Sphere-2nd-Oct-1915-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Gawan-Taylor-F-2nd-Lt-2nd-York-Lancs-Regt-The-Sphere-2nd-Oct-1915.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gawan-Taylor F 2nd Lt 2nd York And Lancs Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Source : The Sphere 2nd Oct 1915<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GAWAN-TAYLOR, FRANCIS, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 2nd s. of His Honour Judge (Henry) Gawan-Taylor, of Croftlands, Heads Nook, Cumberland, County Court Judge of Circuit No. 3, Cumberland and Westmoreland, by his wife, Rachel, 3rd dau. of the late Thomas Joseph Candler, of Low Hall, West Ayton, co. York; b. Darlington, 27 Aug. 1892; educ. Rossall (Scholar and Exhibitioner), and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Scholar, 1913); was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. (Special Reserve), 16 Jan. 1915; was attd. to the 2nd Battn.; went to France, 1 June, 1915, and was killed in action near Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915, during the British advance north and west of Hooge; unm. Buried there.<\/p>\n<p>While at Rossall School he was a member of the O.T.C.; was a keen athlete and ran in the mile race for Cambridge in 1914, when the Oxonian, A. N. S. Jackson, beat him by eight yards. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: &#8220;Your son was one of my subalterns; he was a very promising young officer and was doing very well. We had to take some German trenches. I had two subalterns hit on the way there, but your son was there after we got into their trench. It was while directing the consolidating of their trenches that he was hit by a bullet through both temples. The men of his platoon greatly regret his loss, as they had learned to love him.&#8221; He was engaged to be married to Alyson May Estcourt Boucher, dau. of the Rev. Canon Boucher, Rector of Frolesworth, Lutterworth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source : The Sphere 2nd Oct 1915 GAWAN-TAYLOR, FRANCIS, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 2nd s. of His Honour Judge (Henry) Gawan-Taylor, of Croftlands, Heads Nook, Cumberland, County Court Judge of Circuit No. 3, Cumberland and Westmoreland, by his wife, Rachel, 3rd dau. of the late Thomas Joseph Candler, of Low Hall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-york-and-lancs-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479","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=4479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4481,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions\/4481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}