LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Robert TAYLOR
Service No: 12134
Born: Hobart TAS, 3 August 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 January 1940 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 47 Operational Base Unit, Noemfoor Island
Died: Ground Accident, Noemfoor Island, 15 February 1945, Aged 30 Years
Buried: Lae War Cemetery PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert and Ivy Taylor; husband of Thelma Taylor, of Mildura, Victoria
Roll of Honour: Hobart TAS
Remembered: Panel 113, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Sergeant Taylor, a Fitter IIE, was killed in a collision between a tender and a motor cycle at Noemfoor Island on 15 February 1945.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/39/469