Oscar Neville Taylor

Rank:

Sergeant

Regimental number:

109638

Unit at enlistment:

4th Canadian Mounted Rifles

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Prisoner of war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Walled Lake, Oakland County, Michigan, U.S.A. - Unknown Cemetery

Commemorated at:

Brantford Congregational Church, Victoria Public School Honour Roll

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Dorset

Birth city:

Bournemouth

Address at enlistment:

76 Market Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

76 Market Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Plumber

Religious denominations:

Other

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

BX June 28, 1916

Oscar Neville Taylor Reported Missing

Trooper Oscar Neville Taylor, of 76 Market Street, Brantford, has been missing since the third of June according to news just received in the city. He is a son of Alfred Taylor, who formerly conducted a plumbing establishment at 76 Market, but is now with the 215th Battalion. He is a single man and left with a draft from the 25th Brant Dragoons in the 2nd Contingent.

BX July 3, 1916

Is a Prisoner

Word was received this afternoon by Mrs. Alfred Taylor to the effect that her son, Sergeant Oscar N. Taylor of the 4th C.M.R. was a prisoner of war at Dulmen (Westf.) Germany. Sergt. Taylor was reported missing last Thursday.

BX November 29, 1918

Local Men are Repatriated – Have Been Prisoners of Huns Since Zillebeke, Two Years Ago

Official announcement of a joyous kind to their relatives and friends has been received concerning two Brantford men. The repatriation of Sergeant Robert Vair and Pte. Oscar Neville Taylor of this city, has been officially announced, both Brantford men having arrived within Allied territory after their recent released from the war prisoners’ camps in Germany. Both men belonged to the 4th Mounted Rifles, and were reported missing at the end of June, 1916. They went through that stiff engagement June 2-3 at Zillebeke, when the Huns poured through after the most intense bombardment witnessed in the war up to that time. They were afterward reported prisoners.

Sergeant Robert Vair, when he enlisted, resided at 37 Brighton Place and Pte. Oscar Neville Taylor at 27 Market Street. They have both been in German clutches for over two years, and their relatives are anxiously awaiting further word as to their condition. The battle of Zillebeke was where Captain John Ernest Lattimer of Burford, was made a prisoner, also where Lieutenant Harvey Watt Cockshutt and General Mercer met their deaths. There were many Brantford men engaged in that affair.

BX November 23, 1914

Another Harmony Recruit

Bro. Oscar Taylor of Harmony lodge, I.O.O.F., a member of the last contingent of recruits to leave the city, was presented with a wrist watch by Noble Grand Norman Church, as a remembrance from the lodge.

BX November 12, 1968

TAYLOR, Oscar – On Monday, November 11, 1968 in the Pontiac Hospital, Pontiac, Michigan, aged 78 years; husband of Myrtle Lethbridge; father of Leonard and Bernard, Detroit, Mich.; brother of Miss Katie Taylor and Mrs. J. (Mabel) Porteous of Brantford, Edward of Mimico. Funeral Thursday, November 14, at Richardson and Bird Funeral Home, Pontiac Trail, Walled Lake, Michigan. Interment Walled Lake Cemetery.