First World War Casualty Medal Trio – Gunner Cecil Arthur Taylor – Died of Wounds 17 September 1918
1914-15 Star – L-15116 GNR: C. A. TAYLOR. R.F.A.
British War Medal – L-15116 GNR. C. A. TAYLOR. R.A.
Victory Medal – L-15116 GNR. C. A. TAYLOR. R.A.
Cecil Arthur Taylor was born in Camberwell, South East London, and enlisted locally at Camberwell into the Royal Field Artillery, later serving as a Gunner (No. L/15116). He served with “C” Battery, 122nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, part of the British Army’s artillery arm which played a central role in all major operations on the Western Front.
Taylor served in France and Flanders, where the Royal Field Artillery were heavily engaged in providing close artillery support to infantry attacks, counter-battery fire, and defensive barrages during the later stages of the war.
During the closing phase of the conflict, as the Allied armies advanced in the Hundred Days Offensive of 1918, Taylor was severely wounded in action. He subsequently died of his wounds on 17 September 1918, aged 24, just weeks before the end of the war.
Notably, official records later amended his status, with a War Office Daily List (No. 5765, dated 7 January 1919) recording him as “previously reported died of wounds, now reported killed”, highlighting a discrepancy in the exact classification of his death, though it is clear he was a fatal casualty of active operations.
He was the son of Mr. E. and Mrs. R. Taylor, of 19 Caspian Street, New Church Road, Camberwell, London, and his loss would have been felt deeply within his local community in South London.
Taylor is buried at Lebucquière Communal Cemetery Extension, France (Grave II.B.8), a cemetery associated with the final Allied advances of 1918.
He was entitled to the 1914–15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, confirming his overseas service and qualification for the full First World War trio.
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