LEST WE FORGET

Lieutenant John GOULD-TAYLOR DFC 

Service No: 30589
Born: Young NSW, June 1897
Enlisted in the Army: 18 September 1916
Unit: No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps
Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
Died: Air Operations, France, 3 October 1918, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gouy, Picardie, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of the Rev. W. and Marion Gould Taylor, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Native of Young, New South Wales
Place of Association: Upper Hawthorn VIC
Remembered: Panel 188, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT

By dawn next day only the 2nd Australian Division was left on the Australian front. The 3rd and 5th Divisions were relieved by British units, and sent back to rest areas, where the 1st and 4th had preceded them; the last obstacle, the Beaurevoir Line, was attacked that morning (October 3rd) by the 2nd Division with the British. Accompanying this assault, five machines from No. 3 Squadron at 6.30 dropped phosphorus smoke-bombs on the high ground at Beaurevoir Mill to screen the infantry from German observation.  Among those assisting this attack were Gould-Taylor and Thomson on artillery-patrol; and to the intense regret of the squadron their machine (1) did not return. It was reported that an R.E.8 had been hit by a shell.  Three days later news was received that the grave of the two airmen had been found near Estrees.

(1) RE8 aircraft E224

Extract from Cutlack, F.M. (Frederic Morley) The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War 1914-8, Angus and Robertson Ltd Sydney, 1941 – Page 334

References:

Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record B2455, GOULD-TAYLOR J
National Archives UK RAF Casualty Book AIR 1/969 page 326, 110201

Bibliography:

Muller, P. (Peter) and Hutchinson, J. (John) Secrets Revealed: a brief history of No. 3 Squadron RAAF, Lutheran Publishing House Adelaide SA 5000, 1991
Wrigley, H.N. (Henry Neilsen) (6) The Battle Below: Being the history of No. 3 Squadron AFC, Errol G. Knox Sydney NSW, 1935

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