Name: Albert Edward Taylor Rank: Private First Class Service Number: 31390216 Service: Medic Company, 38th Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division, US Army Awards: Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster Date of Birth: April 20, 1918 Place of Birth: Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts Date of Enlistment: September 2, 1943 Place of Enlistment: Fort Devens, Massachusetts Address at Enlistment: Petersham, Worcester County, Massachusetts Age at Enlistment: 25 Height: 6 feet Complexion: Light Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Brown Occupation: Foundry Molder’s Helper Marital Status: Married Next of Kin: Helen Date of Death: July 23, 1945 Age: 26 Cemetery: Ardennes American Cemetery, Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium Grave: Section C, Row 38, Grave 11 Albert Taylor was the son of William Henry Taylor (1894-1921) and Marion Minola (Bates) Taylor (1896- 1930), the husband of Helen Toini (Jokela) Taylor (1918-1984), and the father of twins Robert R Taylor (b. 1943) and Burt William Taylor (1943-2015). Albert’s parents were married in 1914. After Albert’s father’s death in 1921, his mother married Leon Hagopian (1885-1952). Albert’s father was born in born in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, and his mother was born in Winthrop, in Suffolk Co., Mass. His paternal uncle Charles Adelbert Taylor, served during the First World War and his death on September 12, 1923, was attributed to his military service. Charles’ son Charles Adelbert Taylor, Jr., served during the Second World War and was killed in action January 2, 1944, serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force with the RAF’s 550 Squadron. Albert married Helen on July 13, 1939, in Maynard, Massachusetts. Helen later remarried, George Francis Whalen, and the two raised the twin boys. When Albert registered for the Draft on October 16, 1940, Barre, Worcester Co., Mass he was living on Exchange Street in Barre and working for C. G. Allen Company in Barre. Albert lived in Petersham near the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts prior to enlistment. Private First Class Albert Edward Taylor was killed in a non combat vehicle accident near Leibenstadt, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden- Württemberg, Germany on July 23, 1945. Albert was initially buried at the Saint-Avold Cemetery (designated as temporary cemetery 3574 by the US Army Grave Registration Service) in Section W, Row 7, Grave 3245, and later reinterred at the Ardennes American Cemetery in Belgium in Section C, Row 38, Grave 11, when grave and cemetery consolidation occurred.

Sources: American Battle Monuments Commission honorstates.org – Albert E. Taylor findagrave background photo: Ardennes American Cemetery