Burial Notes

Blue Mountain Cemetery

  Recorded Events in His Life

• Nickname: Bud.

• Parents: Allie B. "Babe" Taylor and Pearl Smith.

• Military Induction: 3 March 1941, Grass Valley, Nevada County, California, USA. First Lieutenant Taylor fought with the 133rd Infantry along the Arno River in Italy. He was one of the most decorated soldiers. He was a German prisoner of war in Poland.

• He served in the military about 1944.
  
  First Lieutenant Elton B Taylor Captured by Germans during WWII
  
  The following information came from newspaper articles.  No dates or newspaper names were provided.
  
  Elton B Taylor enlisted in the Grass Valley Company, 115th Engineers, California National Guard, many months before the Pearl Harbor attack.  After a year or so, he was recommended for Officer Candidate School.  He graduated with a commission in engineering from Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia.  Elton was transferred to the infantry and dispatched overseas, fighting throughout the North African, Sicilian, and Italian campaigns.  He was in the 133rd Infantry Regiment.
  
  His mother Pearl Rager, while living in Alturas, California, received a telegram that Elton had been missing in action in Italy since the fifteenth of September (no year provided.)  The telegram was from J. A. Ulio, Adjutant General, who served in that capacity from 1942 to 1946.  The Germans most likely captured Elton when his unit was fighting along the Arno River in Italy.
  
  At some point, he contacted his sister from a P.O.W. camp about 30 miles from Munich in southern Germany.  The Russian Army eventually liberated Elton from a P.O.W. camp in Poland.
  
  Elton was a First Lieutenant and highly decorated.
  
  — story courtesy of susanaokc, shared on 26 Oct 2014

• He had a residence in 1951 in Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon, USA.

• He had a residence in 1976 in Sumpter, Baker County, Oregon, USA.