Sergeant George Smith Taylor was a 23 year old clerk originally from Worchestershire, England when he attested into the 36th Battalion in January 1915. He was sent as a reinforcement to the 15th Battalion in August 1915 and posted to No. 4 Company. He served in every battalion front line trench tour from1915 to 1918 and fought at the battles Mount Sorrel, the Somme, Vimy, Hill 70, Amiens, the Drocourt-Queant Line and the Canal du Nord. At Hill 70 in August 1917 he suffered GSWs to the neck and elbow and was evacuated to the 1st South African General Hospital then Shorncliffe Military Hospital and #4 Canadian General Hospital before rejoining the battalion. At the Canal du Nord in September 1918 he suffered a GSW to the chest and was evacuated to the UK for medical treatment at Princess Patricia’s Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Kitchner’s Hospital Brighton and the 2nd Canadian Convalescent Hospital Witley before being returned to Canada in January 1919. Sergeant Taylor was awarded the Distinquished Conduct Medal (DCM) for his actions at the Canal du Nord.
NOK: Son of George Edward and Elizabeth Emily Taylor, of Wells House, North St., Ripon, England; husband of Beatrice May Taylor, of 132, Duke St., Hamilton, Ont.
