Enlisted at Dublin on the 28th of April 1849 under the name of "David James".
Age. 20.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: Clerk.
From Private to Orderly Room Clerk (as Sergeant): 3rd of January 1853.
Allowed to revert to his real name of "David James Taylor" by Authority of the War Office, dated the 26th of March 1853.
To Paymaster's Clerk (as Sergeant) from Orderly Room Clerk: 25th of September 1854.
Sent to Scutari on the 26th of October 1854, where he died on the 30th of December 1854.
.Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Died, "in the General Hospital", at Scutari on the 30th of December 1854.
(The muster roll of the General Depot at Scutari, however, shows his date of death as the 16th of January 1855.)
His next of kin is shown as his wife, Elizabeth Taylor.