Notes
The Roll lists his address as 81 Mayor's Walk. It records him as a Lieutenant, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that 2nd Lieutenant Ernest Taylor died aged 23 on 7/9/1918 serving in 7th Battalion Lincolnshire regiment, and is buried in grave III.M.11 at Varennes Military Cemetery in France.. They record him as the son of Charles and Annie Elizabeth Taylor of 81 Mayor's Walk, Peterborough. Ernest is also commemorated on his brother's headstone in Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough- see WMR ref 70112. Ernest was born on 20/7/1895. He attended The King's School in Peterborough, on whose War Memorials he is also commemorated. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at 81 Mayor's Walk; he was their only surviving child. Ernest's Army service file records that he enlisted as a Private at the beginning of the War in the 2nd Battalion Hunts Cyclists, in which he rose through the ranks to Lance Sergeant, regimental number 1088. He then transferred to the 14th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, regimental number 25042. He later served in the 3rd Battalion as a Lance Corporal. He was sent to France on 26/7/1916. He was invalided home in October 1917 suffering from dysentery and the effects of gas poisoning. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant on 18/12/1917. In April 1918 he returned to France, where he joined the 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. He was wounded in action on 5/9/1918 near Le Tansloy, and died at Varennes two days later).