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Sergeant

Geoffrey Gordon Taylor

Service number 923776
Military unit 202 Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Address Unknown
Date of birth 08 Jul 1913
Date of death 21 Jan 1942 (28 years old)
Place of birth 7 Murrey Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Employment, education or hobbies

Attended Queen Elizabeth School from 1921 to 1929.
His father was a solicitor and Geoffery was following him into the profession as he was articled to his father at Messrs Merchant and Taylor and subsequently he was with Messrs Blake & Co in Portsmouth for approx 5 years before he joined the RAF at the beginning of the war.

Family history

Son of Herbert Gordon and the late Kate Taylor of Kirkby in Ashfield. Kate had died in 1919 and Herbert remarried in 1922.

Military history

Old Elizabethan's Service Roll: Sgt Obs Geoffrey Gordon Taylor was killed in action with RAF while on operational flying in January 1942. He enlisted at the beginning of 194o.

Extra information

He is buried at North Front Cemetery, Gibralter, plot 2. B.3

Photographs

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