Can anybody decipher my Great-Grandfathers occupation

[goldie61]

I'd go for 'Ex Army' too.
As Jool says, the 'A' is formed the same as in 'Annie', and the next letter is definitely an 'r'.
Looking at the clerk's script, I would have expected a capital 'Q' to be like a curly number 2 in this form of handwriting - my father still wrote his 'Q's like that. I expect this is how they were taught handwriting at school.
There have been some posts on here about curly Qs!

[Rosinish]

Ex Army for me too.

Agree with the likeness of the 'A' in Annie & 'r' being 2nd letter.

Annie

[Malcolm33]

Definitely Ex-Army    It meant something to tell people that you had served your country at that time.

[garbfink]

Well. Looks like I'm out numbered! haha

Ex-Army it is!. Thank you for all your input!

[Geoff-E]

If you think its says '4 quarry' can you explain what that means?

It's Textspeak 

[garbfink]

Love text speak.

I was kind of thinking that 4 quarry as in number 4 Quarry because he was a miner. However, I've just realised that doesn't make any sense as it wouldn't be called a quarry, would it? It would be called a shaft!

So Ex Army. I agree

[Kevin, now in Chester]

I guess it was quite common after WW1.  Here is an extract from the birth certificates for my aunt and uncle, twins born on Monday 15 December 1919 at 11.30 a.m. and 11.45 a.m. respectively, nine-months and two weeks after my grandfather had left the army!

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I guess it was quite common after WW1.  Here is an extract from the birth certificates for my aunt and uncle, twins born on Monday 15 December 1919 at 11.30 a.m. and 11.45 a.m. respectively, nine-months and two weeks after my grandfather had left the army!

And just to prove that I like to mis-read things, at first glance I though his occupation was a "Handsome Salesman"

[Kevin, now in Chester]

John Richard Taylor was a handsome Hardware Salesman.  He wooed his 21 year old bride when he was just seventeen and they went on to have at least 12 children.  He also won the affections of his Nurse while recovering from gunshot wounds to the head sustained on Sunday 30 July 1916 somewhere in France (see Cockney Ancestor number 148 page 46 - Autumn 2015 for the full story).

Incidentally he was descended from Martha Fulcher of Brick Lane, Shoreditch, Middlesex, through her marriage to Joseph Overy in 1841, then Richard Berry/Sarah Overy of Bethnal Green and his parents John Taylor/Sarah Berry of Mile End New Town.

Kevin now in Chester