Taylor, David

of David Charlton Taylor was born on 13 November 1920 in Loose near Maidstone in Kent. After graduating from Epsom College he joined the three months to the Queen's personal royal západokentskému regiment. After training in the training unit for officer cadets. Subsequently, he joined in April 1941 to Oxfordshireskému and buckinghamshirskému light infantry regiment. With its 1. the banner in June 1944 landed in Normandy.

15. July got a battalion under the operation, which was to clean up the wings for the procedure of the british XII. corps Évrecy, a task to carry out a night attack on the heavily bráněnou homestead Cahier near Mondrainville. The attack began at three o'clock in the morning of the following day. Taylor was, along with his squad of two cooperatives occupy a position southeast of the destination and then head-on attack, while the rest of the battalion will advance on both wings. His platoon spent half a day at a distance of roughly 250 meters away from the four well-dug-in machine guns and in addition had to endure the frequent mortar attacks. Still managed their own machine guns to bind the enemy forces, so as to enable the procedure to the other components of the battalion. After his squad went through a series of hedges forward and be involved in the final phase of the attack, during which he got into conflict with the German rear vanguard. He couldn't endanger the evacuation of the wounded to safety. Cast Cahier has claimed many dead and wounded, the battalion lost one-third of the state. In B company were wounded or killed all the officers. Taylor received for the action Military cross and took over command of B company.

In August, the battalion participated in the attack on the German position at the junction of east from the village Thury-Harcourt. While it was Taylor injured and evacuated to England. The battalion returned in November as a deputy commander of company D, with which it participated in the counterattack in the Ardennes. However, already during the first attempted attack in one of the mined and mortars postřelovaných woods was together with other soldiers killed and the company commander. Taylor was at this event injured. After a few weeks to the company of treatment he came back and took over her command. During operation VERITABLE, specifically during the battles of the Imperial forest, it was Taylor injured for the third time. In the hospital in Louvain remained until the end of the war in Europe. Shortly after the end of hostilities in the Hamburg once again joined the battalion and took over command of a company And.

In 1946 he was demobilized and became a lawyer. This profession he devoted seven years, and then devoted himself to the human resources in the field of industry. In 1977, he married Ruth Nuttallovou. The marriage remained without descendents. After retirement he worked in one of the tribunals, which handle disputes between employees and employers. He was an activist that supported the church, a local children's charity and the conservative party. He died 13. April 2013.


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