Other Information:Herbert was educated at Clarence School, Weston-super-Mare; at Pembroke College; and at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he qualified M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1907. He graduated in medicine the next year [M.B., M.C.] at Cambridge University, then acted as house-physician and house-surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital, and as assistant medical officer at St George’s Infirmary. After he gained a considerable amount of varied experience in resident appointments and in country practices, he joined Dr H C Bartlett at Saffron Walden. On 24th April 1915, he took a commission in the R.A.M.C., then served for a year in the Near East. After he returned, he was posted to France, becoming attached as medical officer to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Herbert had spent several days of continuous and exhausting work when he received shrapnel wounds in his arm and his back. He was evacuated back but died of his wounds in a Canadian Stationary Hospital. He was the third son of Robert and Louisa Taylor of "Athelney" Park Farm Road, Bromley, Kent.
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