After doing some family research I came across my great uncle a john taylor who joined the ist battalion essex regiment at worley in 1904 (essex born and bred) like my mum and gran his number was 8176 he served in india and though out the great war wounded at galipoli in hand to hand with the turks.
and then in france survived the 1st somme offensive, right till the end of the war (there is a picture of the originals who landed in galipoli taken on VE day only 50 men and one officer surviving), he married a belgian girl in 1919 (flora eliza dumont) served in ireland against the IRA , took his discharge in 1922 at the grand old rank of private the same as he enlisted at worley in 1904.then moved to belgium with eliza My point to you is I have hit a brick wall researching in belgium (not interested) that’s the thanks my family gets for saving there arses twice (my dad did the same in WW2 ) can you introduce me to anybody who can help me find more about them (they had 2 children) I am sure you would have had a john taylor next to harper and sharpe a true essex man through and through.
yours w.warne