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PFC William F. Taylor Jr.

Born 28 Aug 1893 in Harris Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States

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Son of William Franklin Taylor Sr. and Della Mable (Colyer) Taylor

Brother of Jessie D. Taylor, Mary Elizabeth (Taylor) Flory, Sarah Maude (Taylor) Decker and Ester Mary Taylor

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[children unknown]

Died 5 Oct 1918 at age 25 in Argonne Sector, France

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Biography

PFC William Taylor Jr. was Killed in Action during the Battle of the Argonne Forest during World War I.

PFC William Taylor Jr. was killed in action at The Battle of the Argonne Forest during World War I.

PFC William Taylor Jr. served in the United States Army in World War I
Service started: April 1917
Unit(s): CO H 314th Infantry, 79th Infantry Division
Service ended: 5 Oct 1918

Space:Fallen Pennsylvanians of The Great War A notice from the War department reached Mr and Mrs William Taylor of Harris Township last Saturday announcing the fact that their son William F Taylor had died on October 5, in a base hospital in France of wounds received in action. The young man was sent to Camp Lee with a contingent of national army men early in July and after a month's training was sent overseas and assigned to Company H 314th infantry. It is supposed he was wounded in the drive in the Argonne sector.Only recently his parents received a letter from him dated September 19, in which the young man stated that he had a presentiment he would be killed and arranged for a division of his money and personal effects among his parents and sisters and brothers. He was 23 years old and in addition to his parents is survived by six brothers and sisters.

Obit..Democrat Watchman..Friday, November 8,1918 CO H 314th INF A E F

William F. Taylor served in World War I. World War One was a war unlike any other, a slaughter that was on a scale unimaginable to this day. He was with the 2nd Battalion, Company H 314th Infantry. The 314th was part of the 79th Infantry Division, A.E.F. (American Expeditionary Force) that went to France in World War I. By the end of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, there were 1.3 millions American troops on French soil that were in the front or heading to it. William F. Taylor was fatally wounded during the battle of the Argonne Forest during the 314th attack on Montfaucon d’Argonne. Causalities for the 79th Infantry Division for its one year of combat was 6,752 Killed In Action.

Sources

All Pennsylvania, U.S., World War I Veterans Service and Compensation Files, 1917-1919, 1934-1948 results for William F. Taylor US. War Casualties Pennsylvania, World War I https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?do=q&state=PA&war=World+War+I https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=429590 [ ] Unsourced family tree handed down to Lawrence Bailey Son of Great Aunt of Lawrence Bailey 314th Infantry Regiment Association

Obituary: Democrat Watchman- 11/8/1918

BURIAL Zion Hill Cemetery Centre County, Pennsylvania, USA Find A Grave: Yvonne Freed Dunn- 5/18/2012 Find A Grave: Memorial #90338836

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The Battle of the Argonne Forest was a major part of t he finial Allied offensive of WII (The Meuse-Argonne Offensive). It was the largest offensive battle in United States military history, involving 1.2 million American soldiers, and which brought the war to an end. The battle cost 26,277 lives, and 95,786 wounded, making it the largest and bloodiest operation of World War I for the American Expeditionary Force (AEF). At 5:30 on the morning of September 26, 1918, after a six-hour-long bombardment over the previous night, more than 700 Allied tanks, followed closely by infantry troops, advance against German positions in the Argonne Forest and along the Meuse River. Inside the Argonne Forest itself, ravines, hillocks and meandering little streams added to the obstacles created by the trees and dense underbrush that reduced visibility to 20 feet. Here and throughout the valley, the Germans had added every imaginable man-made defense, from parallel and flanking trenches to concrete dugouts and fortified strongpoints, supported everywhere by barbed wire and machine guns. To those advantages was added the possession of the high ground east of the Meuse, from which dozens of heavy guns rained death on the Americans.

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