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Corporal James Archibald Taylor

 

Number: 38585

Company: 29th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry

ENLISTMENT

Date: 2 January 1902

Place: Dublin

Age: 29 years

Trade of calling: Clerk, Irish Land Commission

Place of birth: In the Parish of __, in or near the Town of Monasterevan, in the County of Kildare

Family: Father Edward Thomas Taylor (dec.), mother Cordelia Mary Taylor (nee Gooding), 37 Grosvenor Square, Rathmines; wife Florence Wray Taylor (nee Cox), Brayside, Newport.

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 8". Complexion fresh, eyes hazel, hair black.

Religion: Church of England

DEATH

Date: 4 April 1902

Place: The Curragh, Ireland

Cause: Accidentally shot in the head by a bullet discharged by a Colt automatic gun during training.

Buried/ commemorated: Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.

 

Belfast News-Letter, 7 April 1902

 

Dublin Daily Express, 9 April 1902

 

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