TAYLOR, WILLIAM HENRY Rank: Private Service No: 64198 Date of Death: 22/07/1942 Age: 36 Regiment/Service: New Zealand Infantry 24th Bn. Grave Reference XXXII. J. 19. Cemetery EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of William Eyre Taylor and of Edith May Taylor (nee Vernon), of Walton, Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2212455/TAYLOR,%20WILLIAM%20HENRY
His date of death would indicate that he was killed during the fighting at El Mreir when his unit was all but wiped out http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz//tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-24Ba-c5.html Casualties were: Officers Other Ranks Killed 4 42 Died of wounds 7 Wounded 3 54 Prisoners of war (includes 2 officers and 19 ORs wounded and p.w.) 13 157 Total 20 260 Including killed, wounded, missing and prisoners of war, 24 Battalion's casualties added up to 280—a huge total when the fact is taken in consideration that only three companies, consisting of 440 officers and men, made the attack, and that a number of men belonging to the non-fighting transport had remained in rear with B Echelon. On 24 July Brigadier Clifton, who among other adventures experienced during the previous forty-eight hours had been taken prisoner and afterwards escaped, addressed survivors of 24 Battalion where they were encamped a few miles behind the line. One hundred and forty were present, bitterly aggrieved at having been left so badly in the lurch.