35th Infantry (Cacti) Regiment Association


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  CPL George Delmar Taylor    In memory of our fallen brother

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother"



King Company
35th Infantry Regiment
Korean War


"Not For Fame or Reward
Not For Place or For Rank
But In Simple Obedience To
Duty as They Understood It"

National Defense Service Medal Korean Service Medal United Nations Korean Service Medal Republic of Korea War Service Medal



The 35th Infantry Regiment Association salutes our fallen brother, CPL George Delmar Taylor, RA16327699, who died in the service of his country on November 28th, 1950 in North Korea. The cause of death was listed as KIA. At the time of his death George was 23 years of age. He was from Deland, Illinois. George's Military Occupation Specialty was 4745-Light Weapons Infantryman.

The decorations earned by CPL George Delmar Taylor include: the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Purple Heart, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Korea Service Medal, and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.


Corporal Taylor was a member of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in North Korea on November 28, 1950 He died while a prisoner at Camp #5, Pyoktong, North Korea in March 1951 on Malnutrition and Dysentery. His remains were not recovered. Corporal Taylor was awarded the Purple Heart, the Prisoner of War Medal, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.

Hello, I am Betty(Taylor)Sunderland, one of many nieces of George's I would love to hear from anyone who knew him. I am writting a book on the whole Taylor family and have little to write of about George as a person.I was so young when he died. He had 10 brothers and 3 sisters all gone now except for 2 (2001)