Taylor, John Ogilvie
Rank: Captain
Regiment: 4th Battalion East Kent Regiment (The Buffs)
Biography: Son of John O. Taylor, shipmaster ; born Aberdeen, 29 November 1884. Educated at the Aberdeen Grammar School and Aberdeen University. He graduated M.A. in 1910, and became English Master in Basingstoke Grammar School. In April 1915 he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C., from which he received a commission in The Buffs. In October 1916 he went to the Front with his Battalion, and was attached to the Middlesex Regiment. He was killed in action at Monchy-le-Preux, on 3 May 1917. Popular with his fellow-officers and beloved by his men, his death was felt as an irreparable loss. He was a man of fine literary taste, and in his College days a great supporter of a dramatic club for the study of Shakespeare. The breadth of his interests and sympathies, the wider outlook which much travel in France and Germany had given him, made his friendship a privilege and a delight.
Date of Death: 03 May 1917
Burial Details: Name recorded on the Arras Memorial, Panel 2, Column 10.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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