Captain Alfred Squire Taylor - died 31/7/1917 Royal Army Medical Corps, attached 10th/11th Highland Light Infantry Alfred was the son of the Rev David A Taylor DD of "Eastbourne", Windsor Avenue North, Belfast. He was one of 8 Irish Rugby internationals to die in the Great War. Alfred was killed in action, aged 29 on 31st July 1917, the first day of 3rd Ypres. Alfred is buried in Ypres Town Cemetery Extension (ref III B 21), Flanders, Belgium. He is also commemorated on the Comber Memorial, County Down. He was a Medical Student in 1911 House number 32 in Windsor Park (Windsor Ward, Antrim) Taylor David Alexander 63 Male Taylor Dora 56 Female Taylor Hugh Stowell 27 Male Taylor Alice Sirett 25 Female Taylor Alfred Squire 21 Male Burns Lizzie 26 Female McBride Mary 25 Female http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001496166/ http://www.ulsterwarmemorials.net/html/comber.html
In Memory of Captain ALFRED SQUIRE TAYLOR Royal Army Medical Corps attd. 10th/11th Bn. , Highland Light Infantry who died age 29 on 31 July 1917 Son of the Rev. David A. Taylor, D.D., of "Eastbourne," Windsor Avenue North, Belfast. Remembered with honour YPRES TOWN CEMETERY EXTENSION
Taylor Alfred Squire played for Ireland Internationals: 4 : 1910 E= S- W- ; 1912 F+ (1t 1c) Alfred Taylor was born on 6 July 1889, son of the Reverend David A Taylor DD. Played as a Centre for: Campbell College Belfast, Queen’s College Belfast, Belfast University, Edinburgh University, Ulster Profession: Medicine War service: Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps from 12 October 1914, later Temporay Captain [from 1 January 1917] attached to 10th/11th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, 46th Brigade, 15th (Scottish) Division. On 31 July 1917, during the opening day of the Third Battle of Ypres, aided by two tanks, the 46th Bde attacked Frezenbug village, before a party from the King’s Own Scottish Borderers outflanked the enemy position. The 11th Highland Light Infantry came under fire from enemy positions at Square Farm, Hill 35 and Frost House. After the 1/7th King’s took Square Farm, the 11th HLI took Low Farm, but were checked by fire from Pommern Castle and Hill 35. Capt Taylor was killed in action on 31 July, and is and is buried in Ypres Town Cemetery Extension, Menin Gate, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium [III. B. 21.]. Lt J M Y Henderson, a Scottish International in the 10th/11th HLI, was killed in action on the same day.
