Found this on the Merton Court Prep School site:
We now know that William Smalley Taylor was born on 1st June 1911 in Edmonton and his father was a textile manufacturer in Sidcup. After Merton Court, William went on to Pocklington Hall School where he was a really good sportsman, actor and a prefect. In 1930 he went up to Cambridge to study Law first followed by Architecture. He left Cambridge in 1933.
And, an obituary in The Times:
IT WAS in May 1940 that Second Lieutenant Richard Annand, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, undertook an act of outstanding bravery which won him the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry. He was 25 years old, serving near the River Dyle in Belgium, and with the aid of hand grenades he inflicted heavy casualties on the advancing Germans. He was wounded, but after the wound was dressed he made another attack. The situation became untenable and the platoon was ordered to withdraw. Annand discovered that his batman was wounded and missing. He returned at once to the former position and bought him back in a wheelbarrow before losing consciousness as a result of his wounds.
The rescue in the wheelbarrow is commemorated as a bas-relief at his old school, Pocklington Hall, East Yorkshire.
