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Trying to find info on Douglas W B Taylor

Served in the RAF in WW2 and was killed in action when his plane was lost in 1943.

Regards Dorothy

Might this be his birth?

Name: Douglas W B Taylor
Year of Registration: 1916
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
Mother's Maiden Name: Williams
District: Yeovil
County: Somerset
Volume: 5b
Page: 602


Hard to tell what you know and what you'd like to find out.

If you think that's him, the certificate would give his parents' names.

There are details in the record of his death at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site:


Name: TAYLOR, DOUGLAS WILLIAM BULPIN
Initials: D W B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flying Officer
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 59 Sqdn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 20/08/1943
Service No: 116777
Additional information: Son of Richard Bulpin Taylor and Ethel Bulpin Taylor; husband of Lilian Mary Bulpin Taylor, of Bourton, Dorsetshire. B.Sc., M.R.C.V.S.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 129.
Memorial: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL


http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp?menuid=14

Hard to say what relationship here -- perhaps this Richard was his father and the mother on the CWGC site was his second wife.


Name: Richard Bulpin Taylor
Year of Registration: 1871
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Barnstaple
County: Devon
Volume: 5b
Page: 497


Marriages Mar 1896
Taylor Richard Bulpin Langport 5c 545
Uttermare Florence Lilla Langport 5c 545


Name: Florence Lilla Uttermare
Year of Registration: 1865
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Langport
County: Somerset
Volume: 5c
Page: 472

Parents' marriage:

Marriages Sep 1911
Taylor Richard B Westminster 1a 1307
Williams Ethel C Westminster 1a 1307
Claringbould-Williams Ethel Westminster 1a 1307


Presumably a sister:

Name: Joyce U B Taylor
Year of Registration: 1917
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Mother's Maiden Name: Williams
District: Yeovil
County: Somerset
Volume: 5c
Page: 497


And another sister:

Name: Ethel I B Taylor
Year of Registration: 1912
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
Mother's Maiden Name: Williams
District: Westminster (1870-1913)
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 1a
Page: 836


I should stop having all the fun ... especially if this is of no interest ...

Sister Joyce apparently did not marry:


Name: Joyce Ursula B Taylor
Birth Date: 11 Aug 1917
Death Registration Month/Year: Aug 1992
Age at death (estimated): 75
Registration district: Mendip
Inferred County: Somerset
Volume: 23
Page: 1086


Don't see a death for an Ethel I B born 1912.

http://www.lightinfantry.org.uk/regiments/sli/other/surnamest.htm

TAYLOR Douglas John Bulpin Capt., W. Som. Yeomanry Yeovil

oops, posted twice.

Don't know who that is, but he seems to be related.