JIM TAYLOR
Posted by ALAN TAYLOR on May 25, 2011, 20:57:20
I AM LOOKING FOR ANY INFO ON MY DAD JIM TAYLOR, MY MOTHER AS GIVEN ME HIS SERVICE ADDRESS SHE SENT LETTERS TO SO IT MAY HELP 19064398 GNR TAYLOR J 175BTY 58 MED REGT RA BRITISH FORCES PALESTINE.HE CAME HOME 1948.RADIO OPO ,BOXING . HE SAID HE HIT ONE OPPONENT JUST AS HE STOOD UP. BELL HAD GONE, DAD WON VERDICT STOOD, CAUSED BIT OF TROUBLE IN THE CROWD. ASKED HIM WHY HE HIT HIM SO SOON AFTER THE BELL, I WAS GETTING BATTERED HE SAID, WHEN IT'S HIM OR YOU IT HAS TO BE YOU.HE HAD ARMOURED CAR ESCORT SO HE COULD GO AND HAVE A TOOTH OUT , WHILE HE WAS HAVING TOOTH OUT REST OF THE LADS WERE TAKING THE ARMOUR OF ONE SIDE OF THE SMALL TRUCK TO BUT IT ON THE OTHER.PARACHUTE JUMP HE REALISED HE WAS PASSING GUY'S WHO HAD JUMPED BEFORE HIM. SOLVED IT BY CUTTING HIS RADIO OFF.OFFICER COULD'NT UNDERSTAND WHY THE RADIO DID'NT WORK AS IT HAD BEEN BEFORE THEY GOT ON THE PLANE.GUARD DUTY AT A CAMP HE SAID THAT WAS LIKE THE ONES YOU SEE IN WAR FILM'S WIRE & TOWER'S. SCATTERING BROKEN GLASS ON THE SAND TO KEEP OUT THE NATIVES, HOT DAY NATIVES ASKED HELP YOU BOSS, SO THEY HANDED THE BAG TO THEM.DAD HAD BEEN WALKING BACKWARDS THROWING THE GLASS ON THE FLOOR TO KEEP THEM OUT AS THEY HAD NO SHOES OR ANY TYPE OF FOOTWARE ON THEY WALKED FORWARD BUTTING THE GLASS ON THE FLOOR BARE FOOT. THAT WAS THE END OF THAT PLAN. HOPE ANY OF THIS SILLY STUFF WILL HELP
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