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Frederick George Taylor - Continued from page 5
Over the next couple of months the men began their journey to Turkey. The first 70
miles were in open rail trucks to Samarra, but beyond here the journey was by foot,
some 500 miles across desert and mountains. Many men were reduced to bartering
their possessions, especially their coveted boots, for food and water until they had
nothing left. Starved, exhausted and sick, some still with wounds, the men of the 6th
Division assisted each other as best they could on what can only be described as a
‘death march’ until unable to walk any further they fell by the wayside. Some were
taken to inadequate makeshift hospitals others died were they lay. Of the 2,592 British
rank and file taken prisoner at Kut, more than 1,700 died in captivity. Of the 9,300
Indian rank and file and followers, approximately 2,500 died. Frederick did not survive
the journey dying in captivity on 24th August 1916. As the date of his death is
recorded it is probable that he died in a hospital were such things were more likely to be
recorded. Frederick has no known grave and therefore commemorated on the Basra
Memorial, Iraq.
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