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Saltcoats Memorial - Robert Taylor not on memorial

 
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:52 pm    Post subject: Saltcoats Memorial - Robert Taylor not on memorial Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I never knew that Shocked
http://www.freewebs.com/fiji/
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