He was also a pioneer in wireless, and an advocate for its use in military affairs. He joined the local militia (despite his physical disabilities - he was epileptic) and later rose to become a major.

His main civilian activity, however, was that of a journalist.

He owned a publishing company, Building Limited, and edited and published a regular building and town-planning publication, Builder. He later, after the war, edited a journal, Soldier, for the main ex-servicemen's organisation in Sydney. He also wrote and illustrated his own books and pamphlets.

(It is worthy of note that the firm of WS Friend & Co, which specialised in builders' hardware, advertised is every issue of Builder, just as they did in every issue of King and Empire. It is likely that Taylor and his architect wife were on familiar terms with the Friend-hardware family, as well as with Rosenthal.)

Taylor's first "connection" with our search for the truth about Lawrence and Kangaroo was where his historic first flight took place, which was from a ridge of sand across the street from "Billabong", the end-house in Ocean Road, North Narrabeen (see a photo of Taylor in mid-flight, below).

In fact, the Shultz house had been the "base" for that first, historic "flight". The glider had been "put together" there (with the help of a 16-year-old boy called Edward - later Sir Edward - Hallstrom, the Sydney refrigerator tycoon), and was kept in the end-house garage.

However, the main connection between Taylor and the quest for the truth about Lawrence and Kangaroo is the fact that Charles Rosenthal was, according to contemporary newspaper reports, also present that historic day at Narrabeen in December 1909, and had witnessed the flights.

Rosenthal may have even been there as an "official" observer. At the time he himself was a major in the militia, an artillery officer, and thus very interested in the military potential of "spotter" aircraft.

Some months later, to see for himself what military use such a machine might be put to, he, too, took to the air - despite his very-much-heavier-than-air bulk - when Taylor added a motor and propeller to his glider. (Rosenthal crashed on a flight to Parramatta, and was thereafter banned from flying.)

Rosenthal, as a leading Sydney architect, would have been well-acquainted with Schultz and Taylor - not only professionally, but probably also personally. He had been, the Schultz relatives recently confirmed, a regular visitor to their house at the end of Ocean Road, North Narrabeen, as the photograph below indicates.

It is highly likely that Taylor was also involved in the King and Empire, the monthly journal of the King and Empire Alliance, of which, in May 1922, Rosenthal was the secretary and its leading light.

Although Rosenthal, as secretary (and later President) of the Alliance, was the "titular" editor of King and Empire, he would have needed professional help to "put the publication together". The most likely person to have done that - and also sell its advertising - was his friend and fellow militia officer, the Sydney journalist George Augustine Taylor.

Taylor was almost certainly either a member of the secret army ("the garage") behind the King and Empire Alliance, or at least privy to its secrets - especially given that in the pre-war militia he was in military intelligence, and was later inducted into to the regular army during WW1 as a captain in the intelligence corps.

After the war, he continued to serve in a military intelligence capacity in the peacetime militia, alongside his fellow militia officers Scott and Rosenthal.

According to a contemporary report in the Sydney Morning Herald, Taylor was among those who attended the launch of the King and Empire Alliance in the Sydney Town Hall in July 1920 - no doubt at the invitation of his military colleague - and business associate - Major-General Sir Charles Rosenthal, architect (and, no doubt, fellow-Mason).