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govangirl
Joined: 13 Aug 2014 Posts: 764 Location: Saltcoats, Ayrshire
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:52 pm Post subject: Saltcoats Memorial - Robert Taylor not on memorial |
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The newspaper article below from the A&S Herald is headed "Rifleman Robert Taylor, Saltcoats". As he was not on the memorial I did a bit more research and found a record for him on CWGC and Soldiers died in the Great War as follows
CWGC Information
Name: TAYLOR
First Names: Robert Fosbill Barker
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: King's Royal Rifle Corps
Unit: 4th Bn
Date of Death: 8/05/1915
Service no: R/10172
Cemetery/Memorial reference: Panel 51 and 53
Cemetery: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Soldiers died in the Great War record shows Robert was born and lived in Fiji
The Daily Record 10 June 1915 also had an article on Robert's death
"SALTCOATS
Rifleman Robert Taylor, 4th King's Royal Rifle Corps, has been killed in action. He was the only son of Mr. James B. Taylor, a well-known Saltcoats man who had taken up residence in Fiji. On the outbreak of war Robert Taylor immediately offered his services in the Fiji Royal Artillery, and one of the first actions was the capture of a neighbouring German possession by the Fijians, co-operating with an Australian contingent. Afterwards he came to England, and with 40 other Fiji volunteers was drafted into the 4th King's Royal Rifle Corps. He was 24 years of age, and previously worked as an engineer in a Fiji sugar factory."
I don't know enough about the criteria for names being on the memorial to know if Robert names should have been on it.
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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Mary
Perhaps he didn't meet the criteria because his father had left Saltcoats 35 years before and Robert hadn't been born there.
Perhaps he was commemorated by the family in Fiji?
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7749 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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