Alyn Lee Taylor
Commander Alyn Lee Taylor, O.B.E., R.N. (23 June, 1906 – 8 December, 1947) served in the Royal Navy.
Life & Career
The elder son of Guy L. Taylor.[1]
Taylor entered the navy on 15 May, 1920 and proved himself a truly extraordinary young naval officer, being awarded the Beaufort Testimonial with Wharton Testimonial (1928), the Ronald Megaw Memorial Prize (1928-29), the Robert Roxburgh Memorial Prize and the Ogilvy Medal. He was appointed to Iron Duke in the Mediterranean on 15 January, 1925. Soon after, he was in Resolution and Royal Sovereign.
Taylor was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 1 December, 1928.
He spent one year in Malaya before the Service Record we have for him peters out in 1931.
Taylor was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 1 December, 1936.[2] He was appointed to the new light cruiser Edinburgh as torpedo officer on 13 May, 1938, to remain with her upon her first commissioning.[3]
Taylor died "suddenly and peacefully" aged just forty-one at Rowners, Fleet, Hants.[4] His loved ones "Simon" and "Pegs" sent in Memoriam notices to The Times on anniversaries of his death, the last being on the twentieth anniversary.
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ "Deaths" The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Dec 10, 1947; pg. 1; Issue 50940.
- ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 79.
- ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 280.
- ↑ "Deaths" The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Dec 10, 1947; pg. 1; Issue 50940.
