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Sergeant (later Lieutenant) Herbert Taylor

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Herbert Wynne Taylor

Ancestor's date of birth: 04/05/1877

Ancestor's date of death: 08/11/1941

Cause of Death: TB and heart Failure

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Herbert Taylor was born in Prahran, Victoria. He seems to have traveled to England at some prior to the Boer War and was working there when the war broke out

Service Number: 31259

Colony or State of enlistment: Not Australia, Place of Enlistment: UK

Unit: 51st Company (Pagets Horse), 12th battalion Imperial Yeomanry (may also have served in the 73rd Coy)

Rank attained in Boer War: SGT, Date Effective: 1902

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): LT, Date Effective: 1918

Murray Page: Not applicable did not serve in an Australian unit

Contingent: Not applicable

Ship: Sailed from England

Memorial details: Detail not provided

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 clasps. British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: He enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry and served in the Boer War 6 March 1901. The original proposal to organise regiments of Yeomanry for service in the Boer War was made by Lord Chesham and other Yeomanry officers in Oct 1899. On 13 Dec 1899, the War Office decided it would allow a contingent of volunteer forces based on the standing yeomanry regiments to serve overseas. Under a Special Army Order of 4 Jan 1900, a committee of Yeomanry officers was constituted to administer the force. The committee was dissolved in May 1900, the administration being taken over by the War Office. The standing Yeomanry regiments were asked to provide service companies of around 121 men each. The new Imperial Yeomanry (IY) were to be raised on a county basis with the core being the men of the existing volunteer units. The remaining numbers were to be recruited from individuals that met the necessary service criteria. 51st (Paget's Horse) Company, transferred 1902 from 19th Battalion Raised 1900 73rd (Paget's Horse) Company, transferred 1902 from 19th Battalion Raised 1900.

Service and life after the Boer War: In World War One he was still resident in the UK. He enlisted in the South Wales Borderers as no 45640 and was appointed a temporary Lieutenant at the end of the war. Returning to Australia he was a salesman in Queensland in the 1920s before moving to Western Australia in the 1930s with his family.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Robyn Ann Harriott, Thirroul NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand Daughter

 


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