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  • Harold Burfield Taylor
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  • Brigadier Harold Burfield Taylor MC and bar (10 August 1890 – 15 March 1966) was an analytical chemist (B.Sc., D.Sc.) and an Australian Army officer who served in the First and the Second World Wars. A junior officer in the First World War, during the Second World War he was commander of the 22nd Infantry Brigade during the Invasion of Malaya. Captured along with many of his fellow soldiers following the fall of Singapore, he spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner of war. In civilian life, he was an analyst for the government and an expert in poisons, often called upon to give evidence in criminal trials involving poisoning.
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honorific suffix
  • ( MC & bar )
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Birth Date
  • 1890-08-10
Commands
  • 22
Branch
  • 25
death place
Name
  • Harold Taylor
Caption
  • Brigadier H.B. Taylor
Birth Place
Awards
  • Military Cross and bar
death date
  • 1966-03-15
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  • Brigadier Harold Burfield Taylor MC and bar (10 August 1890 – 15 March 1966) was an analytical chemist (B.Sc., D.Sc.) and an Australian Army officer who served in the First and the Second World Wars. A junior officer in the First World War, during the Second World War he was commander of the 22nd Infantry Brigade during the Invasion of Malaya. Captured along with many of his fellow soldiers following the fall of Singapore, he spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner of war. In civilian life, he was an analyst for the government and an expert in poisons, often called upon to give evidence in criminal trials involving poisoning.
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