Geoffrey Gordon Taylor
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. He had taken his final law examinations in March 1934 and received marks of 521 out of 900.
In 1939 he was lodging with Mr & Mrs Ballard of 10 Farlington Avenue, Drayton, Portsmouth. Mr Ballard was a civil servant with the Tax Office.
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Son of Herbert Gordon and the late Kate Taylor of Kirkby in Ashfield. Kate had died in 1919 and Herbert remarried in 1922.
Geoffrey was baptised at St Peter's Church, Mansfield on 8th July 1913. His father's occupation is listed as Solicitor's clerk and the family lived at 7 Murray Street, Mansfield.
In 1939
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.
Flew into a hill at Punta Carnero, Tarifa, Spain when approaching Gibraltar in poor visability. He was in a Catalina 1 (a flying boat).
Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser: 31/1/1942:
The many friends of Mr H.G Taylor solicitor, partner in the firm R.P. Marchent & Co and Mrs Taylor of Ashstead, Kirkby in Ashfield with regret to learn that their son, Sgt Obs Geoffrey Gordon Taylor has been killed in action while serving with the RAF. Taylor was an old boy of Mansfield Grammar School and was articled to his father and at the time he volunteered for the RAF, early in the war, he was in practice as a solicitor with a firm in Portsmouth.
He is buried at North Front Cemetery, Gibralter, plot 2. B.3
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