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The Roll lists his address as Marine House, 5 St John's Street.
(CWGC records that Private Ernest Edward Taylor, regimental number 48590, died aged 34 on 25/9/1917 serving in The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, 23rd Labour Company, transferred under regimental number 78354 to 131st Company, Labour Corps; he is buried grave VI.B.10 at Wimereux Communal Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of John and Mary Taylor of Abbott's Ripton, and the husband of Elizabeth Annie Taylor of 94 St John's Street, Peterborough. Ernest Edward Taylor is also commemorated on a stone at Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough- see WMR ref 70030. Ernest's Army service file records that he married Elizabeth Annie Coulson on 25/12/1906 at St Paul's Church in Peterborough. (On the 1911 census they were living at 15 Star Road, Peterborough). He was living at Priory Farm, Eastgate in Peterborough when he enlisted. On 3.3.1917 he was called up for service in the Queen's Royal West Surrey regiment, under regimental number 48590. On 4/3/1917 he transferred to the 23rd Company of the Labour Corps, with which he was posted overseas on 12/3/1917. On 9/5/1917 he transferred to the 131st Company of the Labour Corps under regimental number 78354. He sustained a shell wound to his left thigh on 20/9/1917. After treatment at a Casualty Clearing Station he was moved to Wimereux Hospital, where he died on 25/9/1917).