Taylor, Andrew James Baxter
Rank: Private
Regiment: 4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders
Biography: Born Ayr, 14 September 1895 ; educated Robert Gordon's College ; student in Arts 1913-5 ; M.A., March 1917 (posthumous award). He enlisted in the 4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders, 21 January 1916 ; after six months' training at Ripon he crossed to France, and five months later he died, on 28 December 1916, of wounds received in action at Courcellette. Taylor's brief military career cut short a life of great promise ; he possessed a disciplined mind, a virile intellect, a forceful personality and great enthusiasm for the matter in hand whatever it might be. His special bent was towards English literature and language. He had intended to take Honours in Arts, and as he had fulfilled all the requirements for the ordinary degree of M.A. this was conferred upon him by the Senatus after his death. Taylor was only 21, he will be remembered as one of those who gave "their lives, their youth, their golden dreams".
Date of Death: 28 December 1916
Burial Details: Buried at Contay British Cemetery, Plot 7, Row B, Grave 8.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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