Military History

Private Army Medical Corps. Transferred to 44th Bn 25.5.1916
Embarked Fremantle per HMAT ‘Suevic’ A29 for UK 6.6.1916.
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit. 44th Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, AIF.
Taylor disembarked at Plymouth 21.7.1916. He marched in to 11th Training Bn. Class ‘A’. at the Command Depot, Perham Downs. After a period of intensive training, he proceeded overseas to France via Southampton 25.11.1916. The 11th Bn. was taken to the ‘Nursery Section’ at Armentieres to acclimatise to battle conditions on the Somme. Taylor fell sick and was admitted to Hospital at Armentieres, with Mumps 2.12.1916. He was transferred to No. 7 General Hospital 6.12.1916 and then invalided per HS ‘Formirosa’ to England with Rheumatic Fever 17.1.1917. Taylor was admitted to the 3rd London General Hospital at Wandsworth 17.1.1917. He was transferred to 1st Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield 10.2.1917. He was discharged to the Depot for duty 17.4.1917. Taylor marched in to Perham Downs 18.5.1917 and was listed for early return to Australia for home service as an invalid.
Embarked England per HS ‘Nestor’ A71 for Australia 22.7.1917.
Returned/Disembarked Fremantle 13.9.1917.
Discharged 18.10.1917.
Final Rank Private, 44th Bn 11th Infantry Bde.
Medical Condition Invalided with rheumatic fever.
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Notes Taylor had 2 brothers in active service Ernest KIA (SN 3476) and Harold (SN3872)
Photo Donor Berrisa Brown (nee Taylor) photograph reproduced with permission of Neil Foley
           HMAT 'Suevic'. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM A03216
           Perham Downs Camp, Salisbury Plains. Post card
           Soldier in Spain Avenue Houplines Sector, Armentieres, December 1916. Photographer unknown, photograph AWM H16988
           3rd Australian General Hospital at Wandsworth,UK c 1916. Postcard by Card House

Information Source
AWM A03216. HMAT 'Suevic'. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM H16988. Soldier in Spain Avenue Houplines Sector, Armentieres, December 1916. Photographer unknown, photograph  sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM Embarkation Roll Benjamin Taylor
Card House.3rd Australian General Hospital at Wandsworth.UK c 1916. 
NAA: B2455, Taylor Benjamin 
Postcard. Perham Downs Camp, Salisbury Plains
Pte. Benjamin Taylor, photograph donor Berissa Brown (nee Taylor) reproduced with permission of Neil Foley
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