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James was born in Beverley the 7 Oct 1896 and baptised at St Nicholas’ church the 5 Nov 1896, the son of James Robert Taylor, of Beverley a riveter at Grovehill shipyard, and Harriet Elizabeth Carter, from Northampton. The family lived at Albert Place, Blucher Lane, but later moved to Holmechurch Lane. By the early 1900s the family were in Goole, Arnold's Buildings. In 1911 James junior was employed as an errand boy.
James enlisted in Goole, probably in 1916 as a private in the 22nd Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers (3rd Tyneside Scottish). The 22nd saw action on the Somme at Albert, Bazentin Ridge and Pozieres Ridge in 1916 and then at Arras in the spring of 1917. It was there in the 1st Battle of the Scarpe that James received unknown wounds and died on 10 Apr. James is buried in St Catherine British Cemetery, Arras. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals.
He is remembered on the Goole War Memorial and may be wrongly ascribed as “A. Taylor” of the Northumberland Fusiliers on the East Riding Memorial in Beverley Minster.
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