Harold Burfield Taylor

Brigadier Harold Burfield Taylor MC and bar was an analytical chemist and an Australian Army officer who served in the First and the Second World Wars. A junior officer in the First World War, during the Second World War he was commander of the 22nd Infantry Brigade during the Invasion of Malaya. Captured along with many of his fellow soldiers following the fall of Singapore, he spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner of war. In civilian life, he was an analyst for the government and an expert in poisons, often called upon to give evidence in criminal trials involving poisoning.

Taylor was born onAugust 1890 in Enfield, Sydney to an Englishman and his Australian wife. He was educated at Sydney Boys High School and the University of Sydney, where he graduated Bachelor of Science in 1912. Interested in chemistry and military science, he served with the Sydney University Scouts, , and was commissioned in 1913.

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