Harold Taylor (Australian politician)
Harold Bourne "Squizzy" Taylor (25 February 1892 – 6 December 1972) was a Company executive and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Biography Taylor was born in Brisbane to parents John Taylor and his wife Ada Jeannie (née Bourne). He was educated at Brisbane Boys' Central School and in World War I fought in Egypt and Gallipoli. He commanded the 27th Battery AIF from 1916 to 1917 and was mentioned in dispatches and wounded in 1917. He was then promoted to major and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1918. from 1918 until 1919 he was a member of the Brisbane Military Censorship Committee. In World War II he was Commander of 2nd AIF Artillery Reinforcements Training Regiment in 1941 to 1942. In civilian life he was an Executive with Burns Philp Ltd in 1927, and manager of Smiths Ltd in 1932. In 1915 Taylor married Jean Cox. Jean died in 1955 and in January the following year he remarried, this time to Dulcie Irene George (died 1987). Harold Taylor died in December 1972 at Redland Bay and was cremated at Mt Thompson Crematorium. Public career In 1947, Taylor, at first a member of the QPP and then the Liberal