SKELTON - IN - CLEVELAND
IN HISTORY
"WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"

Private DANIEL TAYLOR.

3803 4th Bn, Yorkshire Regiment.

who died, aged 39, on the 17th September 1916.

Husband of Eliza Taylor, of 6 Prospect Place, Skelton-in-Cleveland, Yorks.


Thiepval Memorial.

At the 1901 census Daniel, aged 23, was living at 15 Charlotte St, New Skelton and working as an Ironstone miner.
He appears to have been the bread-winner of the family as his mother, Sarah, a Norfolk woman, was a widow at age 46.
He had a sister, Margaret 20 and a younger brother Charles 12.
By the time of the war he had married and was living at 6 Prospect Pl.
Details of any family not known.

The 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment were formed in August 1914 in Northallerton.
They became part of the 150th Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Division.
After landing at Boulogne on the 14th May 1915, the Division took part in most of the actions on the Western Front.
The Thiepval Memorial commemorates more than 72,000 missing men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died on the Somme battlefields before 20th March 1918
Daniel was killed in action during the Battle of Flers Courcelette.