Name: Charles Adelbert Taylor Rank: Corporal Service Number: 415784 Service: 24th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces Date of Birth: July 27, 1895 Place of Birth: Yarmouth, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: August 7, 1915 Place of Enlistment: Aldershot, Kings Co., Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Yarmouth, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 20 Height: 5 feet, 8 ¾ inches Complexion: Dark Eye Colour: Blue Hair Colour: Light Brown Occupation: Moulder Marital Status: Single Religion: Wesleyan Next of Kin: William Charles Taylor (Father), Yarmouth, NS Date of Discharge: July 13, 1919 Age: 23 Date of Death: September 12, 1923 Age: 28 Cemetery: Yarmouth Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Charles Adelbert Taylor was the son of William Charles Taylor (1851-1917) and Louise Dorothy (Allen) Taylor (1862-1924), and the brother of Laura Jane Taylor 1887-1971), Florence Louise Taylor (1889- 1964), William Henry Taylor (b. 1894), Ralph Saville Taylor (1898-1919), Hazel Verna Taylor (1898- 1988), and John Ashford Douglas Taylor (1900-1967). Charles’ son, Warrant Officer Class II Charles Adelbert Taylor Jr., served during the Second World War and was killed in action January 2, 1944, serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force with the RAF’s 550 Squadron. His brother William’s son, Private Albert Edward Taylor, served with the US Army’s 38th Armored Infantry Battalion and died in accident during the Second World War on July 23, 1945, in Germany. Charles enlisted with the 40th Battalion, transferred to the 25th Battalion with Canadian Expeditionary Forces, and served in Canada, England, and France. He suffered a gun shot or gun shrapnel wound to the right forearm during the war. Charles died September 12, 1923, of heart failure and pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). His death was attributed to his WWI military service. He is interred at Mountain Cemetery, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

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