Born at Sherborne, Dorset.
Enlisted at Hounslow on the 27th of December 1842.
Age: 21.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Labourer.
Embarked for the Crimea aboard the H.T. "Medora" on the 27th of April 1854.
Sent to Scutari on the 15th of September 1854 and to England on the 31st of March 1855.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. "Great Britain" on the 8th of October 1857.
"Deserted" on the 4th of January from "Camp, near Kotah" and rejoined on the 7th of January 1858.
Tried by a General Court-martial and sentenced to 186 days' imprisonment and marked with the letter "D".
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Lummis and Wynn state that he did not serve in the Crimea.
Can find no trace on the Mutiny medal roll.
Died at Meerut, India, on the 23rd of July 1861.
Next of kin: Wife, Jane Taylor. With the Regimental Depot.
The India Office records shown him as dying of "cholera" at Meerut on the 23rd of July 1861, aged 39 years. He was buried on the same day by the Revd. E.W. Rotten, Chaplain, in the Cantonment Cemetery.
The Regimental "Casualty Returns" for the period show the following:
"Note, Has Credits of £4/8./10d. Only one half of this money has been paid over to his widow by the Regiment, for want of proof that Private Taylor's father is dead."