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| 2nd Lieutenant John Hodgson TAYLOR | |
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3rd Divisional Signals, Royal Signals Corps Date of birth: 1st November 1910 Date of death: 10th January 1934 Killed on active service aged 23 Unknown |
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| John Hodgson Taylor was born at Lancaster on the 1st of November 1910 the son of Samuel John Taylor, an assistant town clerk, and Annie Maria (nee Hodgson) Taylor of 9 Westbourne Terrace, Lancaster, later of 27 Manor Road, Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex. He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Heads House from September 1924 to December 1928. He was a member of the Running VIII in 1927, a member of the Athletics team in 1927 and 1928 and was appointed as a House Captain in 1928. He achieved his School Certificate in 1926. He went on to the Royal Academy Woolwich in 1929 where he was winner of the one and two mile races in the Academy sports the same year. He was the winner of the one mile race in the Woolwich, Sandhurst, Cranwell race of 1930 and represented the Academy at football. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Signals Corps on the 28th of August 1930. He was seriously injured in a motor accident and he died at the Infirmary at Salisbury in Wiltshire. |
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