Grave Location: IX.C.11

 A standard Commonwealth Grave Commission (CWGC) inscribed gravestone.

From the CWGC Files:

Private

TAYLOR, SHERMAN

Service Number H/102132

Died 23/05/1944

Aged 19

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.

Son of John Wilson Taylor and Eva Mills Lee Taylor, of Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.

INSCRIPTION

BELOVED SON OF JOHN WILSON AND EVA MILLS LEE TAYLOR OF BETHESDA, MARYLAND, U.S.A.

About the cemetery: The site for CASSINO WAR CEMETERY was originally selected in January 1944, but the development of the battle during the first five months of that year made it impossible to use it until after the Germans had withdrawn from Cassino. During these early months of 1944, Cassino saw some of the fiercest fighting of the Italian campaign, the town itself and the dominating Monastery Hill proving the most stubborn obstacles encountered in the advance towards Rome. The majority of those buried in the war cemetery died in the battles during these months.

The text on the gravestone is written in English and reads:

H/102132     PRIVATE

S. TAYLOR

Princess Patricia's Canadian 

Light Infantry

23^RD MAY 1944         AGE 19

BELOVED SON OF JOHN WILSON AND EVA MILLS LEE TAYLOR OF BETHESDA, MARYLAND, U.S.A.