On June 5 the twenty-seven year old Jonathan Stanley Tayloe registered with his draft board in Windsor and volunteered for service in the North Carolina National Guard. He was immediately sent to Camp Royster at Goldsboro, N.C., where he enlisted in Company I, 2d Infantry, NCNG, on June 6, 1917. Here he drilled and received some basic training until the end of July 1917, when he was assigned to Company I, 119th Infantry, and transferred to Camp Greene at Charlotte, N.C., for further training. On September 17, 1917, his regiment was sent to Camp Sevier at Greenville, S.C., where it was assigned to the 30th ("Old Hickory") Division. After seven months at Camp Sevier the division was shipped to England in May, 1918, and from there to Calais and the Eperlocques Training Area. Before division training was completed, the Old Hickory Division was marched into Belgium on July 4 to take up a support position in the Ypres sector. On August 9, 1918, Tayloe was killed in the trenches while being shelled.