Cecil Alfred Taylor was the son of Harry and Matilda Taylor; husband of Jean Florence Taylor, of Crook, County Durham, he enlisted in the Devonshire Regiment and volunteered for airborne forces.
Lance/Sergeant Taylor successfully completed glider training and was posted to 12th (Airborne) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, and took part in Operation Overlord (Normandy).
L/Sgt Taylor was killed in action on 12 June 1944, aged 30, and was given a field burial at Amfreville, and was re-interred to Ranville War Cemetery, Calvados, France on 13 June 1945.
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By Rod Gibson with information and imagery supplied by Hazel Brown, daughter of Cecil Taylor.
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