In Memory of

Private Albert Taylor

18707
6th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment
Killed In Action 14th February 1917 Age 22

Albert lived at 16, Wood Street, Earlestown. He was educated at Manor School and worked at Sankey Sugar Works before enlisting in early 1915.

According to the obituary published in the Newton and Earlestown Guardian on March 2nd 1917, he suffered frostbite in his feet while fighting in the Dardanelles and had to be sent to a military hospital in Malta. When he had recovered he was sent to Mesopotamia.

Like Charles Zorn and Alfred Hughes, Albert’s name is on the Basra Memorial in Iraq which bears the name of more than forty thousand members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the operations in Mesopotamia from the autumn of 1914 to the end of August 1921 and whose graves are not known.

The Battalion War Diary and Whalley-Kelly both give accounts of the fighting in the first half of February 1917. Alfred Hughes, John Lloyd and Richard Harrison were also killed at about this time.