SERGT. BASIL GRAHAM TAUNTON, 20TH BATTN. (3RD PUBLIC SCHOOLS) ROYAL FUSILIERS (CITY OF LONDON REGT.). DIED JULY 22ND, 1916, OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION NEAR MAMETZ WOOD, JULY 20TH. AGED 31. At the School 1899 (Day Boy). Sergt. B. G. Taunton was the only son of the late Hugh Grosvenor Taunton and of Mrs. Taunton, of 51, Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells. He came to Tonbridge from the Mount School, St. Leonards, and was only in the School for a short time. After he left he was in the Civil Service and, when war broke out, was in the Surveying Branch of the Post Office at Exeter. Enlisting in the 20th (3rd P.S.) Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers in September, 1914, he was soon promoted to Sergeant, and though he was subsequently offered a commission, he declined to accept it. He went out to France with his Battalion in November, 1915, and took part in the Battle of Albert, July Ist to 13th, in the great advance on the Somme. On July 20th, 1916, he was mortally wounded, near Mametz Wood, and died in hospital early on the 22nd. He was buried in the Cimitiere du Bois, Heilly, near Corbie.