George enlisted on 10th February 1915. He was 24 years and 50 days old, and a Wagon Repairer by trade. He joined at Hindley and transferred to Llandrindod Wells on the 18th. He was admitted into an Isolation Hospital on the 5th March having been diagnosed as having pneumonia, but died four days later, at 8.15p.m., from Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. George was the son of George Thomas Taylor of "Fern Leigh", Atherton Road, Hindley Green, Wigan, Lancs.