Taylor

Born: 4 May 1913 - Lawrence County, Ohio

Parents: Edward Taylor & Margaret Dunn-Taylor

- father died during 1930s and his mother married Clavia Tevens

Siblings: 1 brother

Hometown: Ironton, Ohio

Occupation: grocery store clerk

Married: 1940 - Geneva Kitchen-Taylor

Resided: 403 North Fourth Street, Ironton, Ohio

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 6 February 1941

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty:

- Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

- Battle of Bataan

- 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

Prisoner of War:

-9 April 1942

- Death March

- Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan

                - did march with John Rowland
            - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor
                - Americans on Corregidor returned fire
            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
                - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men
                - 100 POWs packed into each car
                - POWs who died remained standing
            - Capas - dead fell to floor as living left boxcars
            - POWs walked last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

POW Camps:

- Philippine Islands

- Camp O'Donnell

           - unfinished Filipino training base
            - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp
            - only one water spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate

- Cabanatuan

- Corregidor

- Cabanatuan

Died:

- 17 November 1942 - malaria

- Approximate time of death - 5:30 PM

Promoted: corporal

Buried:

- Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery

Reburied:

- 31 October 1949

- Woodland Cemetery - Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio