Last Day of Gunner Ronald Taylor

• Main Author: Their Finest Hour Project Team
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: British history; European history (excl. British; classical Greek and Roman); International history; Their Finest Hour; World War Two; Armed Forces; Atlantic; Battle; Battle of the Atlantic; Britain; British; Europe; European; German; Germany; Letter; Letters; Military; Naval; Naval Warfare; Navy; Portrait; RN; Royal; Royal Navy; Sea; Sea Battle; Ship; Ships; UK; United Kingdom; Wales; Welsh; Gunner; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.25923157.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Last_Day_of_Gunner_Ronald_Taylor/25923157

Ronald Taylor was born in a small Welsh village, Talywain, in 1922. He was the first born of six boys to Dorothy and Wilfred Taylor. Ronald had just turned 20 years old when he joined the Royal Navy in March 1942. He was trained as a Gunner. Before he went to sea he returned home to his family for a...