Margaret Taylor shares family memories about her father’s war time service (Pte. Arthur H. Taylor, North Staffs Regiment) with Sue Middleton, a volunteer on the Heritage Lottery Fund Bottesford Parish WW1 Centenary Project: People, community and memory.
Born in 1900 Arthur Taylor volunteered under age in 1917. From a family with a butchery business and being used to working with animals he worked with horses in France. As necessity required, they would butcher and eat horse meat.
Pte, Arthur Taylor – ‘France’
Arthur Taylor survived. He continued in the butchery trade and the family business continues today at The Cross, Market Street, Bottesford.
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