Son of William Twentyman Taylor. In Samuel Alfred (Taffy) LONG's biographical entry in the New Dictionary of South African Biography, Vol. 1, it states that he was hanged on 17 November 1922, at the Central Prison in Pretoria, together with Herbert HULL and David LEWIS. Hull and Lewis were sentenced for the murder of Lt. Rupert William TAYLOR.
First record of a sequential SAWGP citation smear; following PersonNumbers cleared. Award not independently name-matched.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '94856215' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 33219 to 33220 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (33219, Taylor, Ivan Leslie (M)). A value repeated down an unbroken block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number; the pattern holds across 850 such runs on this roll and is independently confirmed by Mike Sandham's research log, which attaches such numbers to the head of the run 167 times against 6 contradictions (all examined). No replacement is guessed: this man's real service number is simply not known, and a blank field says so honestly where another man's number did not.
LG Sup 17 April 1917 - "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayed great courage on several occasions in getting his men and mules through heavy shell fire. He set a splendid example to his men throughout under the most difficult circumstances."
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