S Taylor Coal Merchant - Crewe Close - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire - Ghost Signs on Waymarking.com

He was the son of Samuel and Annie Taylor. His father was a coal merchant and the sign for his yard is still legible. They lived at 58 Hartley Road and later at 48 Denison Street (both Radford Nottingham). Taylor was admitted to Nottingham High School on 14th September 1898 (the same day as D H Lawrence). They shared the same birthday (24/6/1885).

Percy Taylor was a warehouseman in 1911. He was a member of 10th Nottingham (All Saints) Boys Brigade.

All Saints Church News, August 1918: 'Sergeant Taylor, Sherwood Foresters, 28 Raleigh Street, on being decorated with the Military Medal, “for great bravery and courage in leading his men under heavy machine gun fire.” He comes from a fighting stock, his father being an old Sherwood Foresters who also won medals in the Indian campaign in the nineties.'

Nottingham Evening Post obituary (abridged) 28 July 1915: Sgt Percy Taylor, 7th Sherwood Foresters, 48 Denison Street, Radford, killed in action June 18th.

Inscription on family memorial All Saints, Raleigh Street, Nottingham (WMA 27350): 'In loving memory of Sgt. Percy Taylor, 1/7th Sherwood Foresters Robin Hood Rifles), born 24 June 1885, killed in action 18 June 1915 at St Eloi near Ypres, Belgium, whilst nobly fighting for his country. "Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends."

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