Army names i'm researching

Hello Mike

I can put you in touch with someone whose father is on your list. Will PM you.

 

Have PM'ed you Greyhound. Many thanks for getting in touch and look forward to talking to Ernest's son.
Mike

 

Joseph James Taylor 7007152 was my Grandfather, and I've a scattered history of him because he told his family little. He was nicknamed Jock, but was not Scottish, but from the east end of London. He joined the Royal Irish Rifles as an underaged soldier, he fought at Gallipoli and perhaps the Western Front and Eygpt. He transfered to the RAOC. In the 1920s he was stationed in Germany, he moved to the Depot at Didcot and was then became a fireman for the depot's fire crew. He was the first person baptised at Didcot Baptist Church. Though he could have stayed with at the Depot he went with the BEF. Though he couldn't swim he waded out to neck deep watr 3 times before getting hime. He went on Commando training at Inverary. He raided Norway and was knocked out by a German's rifle butt. He possibly raided Dieppe. He then went to East Africa, he was injured in training in 1945, returned home in a coma and never regained full consciousness and died in 1946. When his medals were applied for he gained a Burma Star though the family isn't sure when he qualified.

His widow Annie Ethel lived in Didcot until her death in 1985, her son Derek is a retired Baptist minister and British Legion chaplain for Burton Latimer, Northants and her son Gerald served in Malaya, worked for the local corporation and died almost 20 years ago, but his son still lives in Didcot.

Mark Taylor

 

Hi Mark,

A very big welcome to the forum. This is great information for the research i'm doing on the Didcot memorial. A big thankyou for this info. I don't suppose you have any photos of your grandfather do you? I have now got together with another researcher who was doing the same project and have pooled our info so that the book now is a lot closer to being published. If you happen to remember anything else or you find any photos of him please PM me and i'll give you my email address.
Thanks to this forum we have managed to get hold of another son of a casualty who has been able to furnish us with a couple of photos of his father.
Again many thanks for providing this information about your grandfather.
Mike

 

My sister has a photo of our Grandad in WW1 uniform, I'll try to send a scan. Sorry its a patchy story, but he always said he'd talk about things after the war.

 

Hi Mark,
No worries about the story being patchy, its giving us a lot more to go on and if we find out anything more i'll be glad to share that with you.
Thanks again for all your help.
Mike

 

Everitt John of of 9 Sqn RE Details of cemetery buried in below, 9 were involved with the airborne assualt at Arnhem
BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERYCountry:GermanyLocality:unspecifiedVisiting Information:Wheelchair access to the site is possible, but may be by an alternative entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our Enquiries Section on telephone number 01628 507200Location Information:Becklingen War Cemetery is 13 kilometres south east of Soltau on the west side of the road from Hamburg to Hannover. From Hannover travel north in the direction of Hamburg on the Autoroute No.7 for 80 kilometres until the junction with Soltau Sud, this is in fact the junction of the A7 with the B3 Hannover to Hamburg road. On leaving the A7 at Soltau Sud follow the B3 in the direction of Celle and Bergen. The cemetery is on the right hand side of the road, 7 kilometres from the motorway junction.Historical Information:The site of Becklingen War Cemetery was chosen for the position on a hillside overlooking Luneburg Heath, where Field-Marshall Montgomery accepted the German surrender from Admiral Doenitz on 4 May 1945. Burials were brought into the cemetery from isolated sites in the countryside, small German cemeteries and prisoner of war camps cemeteries, including the Fallingbostel cemetery, within a radius of about 80 kilometres. Most of those buried in the cemetery died during the last two months of the war. Becklingen War Cemetery contains 2,374 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 97 of them unidentified. There are also 27 war graves of other nationalities, many of them Polish.