Private
North Staffordshire Regiment | 50790 | 1/6 Battalion |
Army Pay Corps | 8381 | |
Lincolnshire Regiment | 52066 | 10th & 2nd Battalions |
Photo courtesy John Taylor
Biography
German KEY was born in the Heage area during 1885. His mother Hannah Key married Joseph TAYLOR during 1888 so German was then known as German Key TAYLOR. He married Emily Frances Street at Belper in 1909; they had Horace Norman Taylor, born December 1909 and Frederick Henry Taylor born 1916. German was a music teacher who was also a pianist at Ripley cinema, During the war years the family lived at Ash Mount, Crich Carr. His wife Emily (nèe Street) was sister to Albert Percy Street, Edwin Street and Fred Street.
Photo courtesy Colin Wyatt
Newspaper report
Derbyshire Courier, 5 October 1918
News was received last week by Mrs G. Key Taylor, Ash Mount, Crich Carr, that her husband, Private G Key Taylor, Lincolns, had been wounded in action. Private Taylor was hit in the left arm between shoulder and elbow by a piece of shrapnel. He has since been bought to Scotland, and is now at Dundee hospital. Private Taylor enlisted two years ago and has been in France for six months. Before joining up he was musical director and pianist at a cinema at Ripley.
Medal Roll Index Card
He was awarded the British War and Victory Medals.
Army Record
German Key Taylor 12 Havelock Street, Ripley aged 30y 1m, married; Music Teacher; 5ft 6.5½in; C of E
married Emily Frances Street in Belper 1909; child Horace Norman16 Dec 1909 at Belper, Frederick Henry 2/11/1916
52066 Lincolnshire Reg
Service April 1916 to March1919; 161 days overseas
British War and Victory medals
Army Pay Corps 8381
Lincolnshire 52066
Enlisted N Staffs Training Reserve Btn
Enlisted 12/9/16 TRB
7/7/17 transferred to N/Staffs
16/4/1918 to 2nd Lincolns
Hospital dysentry 7/8/18
Wounded 18/9/18
To England on on St Andrew 21/9/18
Demobbed 6/3/19
Dundee War Hospital 3/12/18
Address for pay Ash Mount, Whatstandwell
Left Dundee for his address at Ashmount, Whatstandwell
Medical report: German Key taylor 52066 2nd Lincolns; teacher of music; posted for duty 10/9/16; disability caused in action on the Somme; fracture humerus thro gunshot wound arm and upper leg
55th Field ambulance; 20th CCS; 6th General Rouen; War Hospital Dundee
1901: Ambergate
Forename | Surname | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Where born |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Joseph | Taylor | Head | 37 | Wire drawer | Crich |
Hannah | Taylor | wife | 38 | Heage | |
German | Taylor | son | 15 | Railway Clerk | Heage |
Morris | Taylor | son | 9 | Heage | |
George H | Taylor | son | 1 | Heage |
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1911: Derwent Street, Belper
Forename | Surname | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Where born |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
German Key | Taylor | Head | 25 | Insurance Agent | Ambergae |
Emily Frances | Taylor | wife | 22 | Ripley | |
Horace Norman | Taylor | son | 1 | Crich |
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1918 Voters List
Taylor, German Key, Crich Carr absent on military service
1939 Register: King's Hill Drive, Birmingham
German Key Taylor b.31 October 1885; insurance clerk
Emily Frances Taylor b.14 April 1888
Clifford Taylor b.22 February 1920; railway clerk