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|Surname and forenames=Taylor Thomas William
|Army number=1469827
|Rank=Gunner.
|Decorations=None known beyond normal Service Awards, covering North West Europe.
|Date of birth=16/6/1921, probably at Frodsham - mother's maiden surname, Percival.
|Age=53 at the time of his death.  
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery 10/7/1939.  Underwent Basic Training.  Posted to the Orkney Heavy Regiment 25/3/1940.  Posted to the 534th (Orkney) Coast Regiment 22/9/1940.  Posted to the 143rd Coast Battery - Stromness - 2/6/1941.  Posted to the 307th Coast Battery 15/7/1941.  Posted to the 143rd Coast Battery 8/11/1941.  Spell in 33rd General Hospital, Peebles, 20/7/1942 to 16/8/1042.  Spell in King's Cross Hospital, Dundee 23/10/1942 to 11/11/1942.  Attended Course in Sanitary Duties at Army School of Hygiene, Wytchete from 2nd to 12th November 1943 - Passed.  Posted to the 55th Anti-Tank Regiment 30/12/1943.  Embarked from the UK 9/6/1944.  Served Normandy and North West Europe.  Spell in 160th Advanced Dressing Station  21/8/1944 to 23/8/1944 during which he was on X List (II).  Admitted to Number 17 Field Dressing Station 18/9/1944 and added to X List (II).  Discharged from Number 32 Casualty Clearing Station to the 55th Anti-Tank Regiment 21/9/1944.   Further spell in Number 17 Field Dressing Station - admission date not known - and discharged and taken off the X (II) List 18/2/1945.  Awarded 15 Days Field Punishment and forfeiture of pay 9/7/1945 for being Absent without Authorised Leave.  Posted to 46 Holding Unit - X (II) List BAOR - 10/4/1946.  Returned to the UK.  Y Release 27/5/1946.  Section B Reserve 14/8/1946.  Class A Release.  Demobilised.   Class Z Reserve 9/7/1951.
|Company/Battery=143rd Coast, 307th Coast.  
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Gunnery duties.  Sanitary Duties following completion of his Course.
|Joined Brigade=30/12/1943.
|Promotions=Upgraded to Class 1A with effect from 10/12/1942 after three years' service.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known - spells in ADS and CCS may have been illness or woundings - records do not include that detail.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 8/12/1974 aged 53.
|Home address=Lived at Frodsham - Volunteer Street - and worked as a Farm Labourer.  Next of kin on enlistment - father - William Taylor.  Married Helen Frances Reddichan (widow) on 8/8/1941.  Subsequently resident in Dundee. 
|Image Name=IMG_0345.jpg 
|Image Title=Gunner Thomas William TAYLOR, 55th Anti-Tank Regiment.  Taken at Nijmegen.
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