A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
A Wrexham paper has an article about Taylor: "Taylor was the first of 13 capped Wales players to lose their lives in the conflict, during the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915 when the HMS Tiger was hit by a shell. He was Engineer-Captain on the Royal Navy battlecruiser when it was hit, and killed instantly. At the age of 51, he was the fourth oldest rugby international to die during the Great War. "From Ruabon, Wrexham, where his father Reverand {sic} Alfred Taylor was headmaster at Ruabon Grammar School, Taylor was also a member of the very first London Welsh team, when they met in October 1885 as a club for Welsh 'exiles' living in London. He made is international debut for Wales in 1884 against England and his final appearance came three years later against Ireland."
His Wikipedia page gives a good outline of this man, but more detailed information about him can be found on the Dartmouth's Great War Fallen website.
Our image of the man was found on the Find a Grave website that confirms he was buried in Tavistock Cemetery, 119 Plymouth Rd, Tavistock, Devon. When probate was granted to his widow on 29 March 1915 his effects totalled £1,534-17s-6d. He was posthumously awarded the 1914 Star, the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal. He is also commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website and on the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War website.
