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Page contains 4 photographs depicting soldiers and civilians outside in Ottawa. Captions include: "Joe; Norm on leaving for the Signal Depot!; Sgt. Wm Langford; Sapper Frank Lund." Newspaper clipping includes a photograph of Lieut. George Melville Taylor and reports that he was wounded on the battlefield and received the Military Cross.

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  • [start clipping] WINS MILITARY CROSS 1 photograph LIEUT. GEORGE MEVILLE TAYLOR, son of Mr. George W. Taylor, Assistant Deputy Minister of Inland Revenue, and Mrs. Taylor 288 Clemow ave., who has been awarded the military cross for bravery. He is badly wounded. [end clipping] [start clipping] LT. G. W. TAYLOR WINS THE MILIATRY CROSS --- Ottawa Boy's Heroic Action Recognized- Is Now in England Badly Wounded --- Word has reached Ottawa that LIeut. George Melville Taylor, of the Canadian Engineers, and son of Mr. G.W. Taylor, assistant Deputy Minister of Inland Revenue, and Mrs. Taylor, 288 Cremow ave., has been awarded the Military Cross for bravery on the field. Lieut. Taylor was dangerously wounded on March 1 by a bullet, which entered his chest within an inch of his heart and passed out of his back. Pneumonia developed. [end clipping] [start clipping] Lieut. Taylor received a second wound from a shell splinter in the back while returning to the dressing station, but is making a remarkable recovery. The wounded soldier is at present in the 2nd Western General Hospital, at Manchester. Lieut. Taylor is a well known Ottawa man, and before the war was employed as an engineer with the Montreal Terminals Co. He graduated from McGill two years ago with a B.Sc. The act for which he was awarded the Military Cross resulted in his wounds. [end clipping] Mar. 30 - 1917 wounded (annotation in ink)
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