DISTINGUISHED SOLDIER
VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND [ Per Pres. Association. 1 AUCKLAND, Dec. 17. Partly with the hope of meetings a number of New Zealand soldiers who served with the Hawke's Bay Regiment during the Great War, Colonel B. H. Waters Taylor, C. 8., C.8.E., who has a distinguished record, arrived at Auckland by the cruise-liner Strathaird. Col. Taylor met many of the New Zealand and Australian troops who were in Cairo in 1916. Before the Great War Col. Taylor spent some years in South Africa, taking part in the Boer War with the Cape Mounted Riflemen and receiving a commission in the Royal Berkshire Regiment for service in the field. Later he saw service in the Gold Coast territories and in Nigeria. Aller being with the New Zealand and Australian forces in 1915, he was appointed to the staff of the delta and western force of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and he went with Lord Allenby into Palestine where, for a time, he was acting-Governor of Jerusalem before being made Governor of Galilee. He was then made chief-of-staff in Palestine until the end of the war. Later he commanded the Prince of Wales volunteers in South Lancashire, retiring in 1931.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 300, 18 December 1937, Page 8
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