LILIAN A. M. TAYLOR

Lilian Taylor is commemorated both on the memorial plaque in the church and on a Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone in the churchyard, which has the inscription:

12942 MEMBER
LILIAN ANNIE MARIA TAYLOR
WOMEN’S ROYAL AIR FORCE
6TH NOVEMBER 1918. AGE 29.

TheWar Graves Commission records add that she was the daughter of William and Harriet Taylor, of Sulgrave.

The Taylors are a very old established family in Sulgrave and Lilian’s nephew Donald is a familiar sight in the village today. His father told him that she had served in France during the Great War and died of influenza at the end of it. More than 40 million people world wide died in this dreadful epidemic and it is said that there were more deaths in Britain from it than from the Great War itself. Since the headstone is in the churchyard it can only be assumed that she came home very ill and died in the village.