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Thank you very much to Bookbox for providing this lead and to the London Archive for kindly transcribing and indexing the LCC Air Raid Report Books records.

And the answer is 03.43 on 11 May 1941, destroyed by an incendiary bomb, which destroyed the Angel and Trumpet, 2 High Street, Stepney "a building of two floors and basement about 40 x 40 feet used as Victualler and dwelling house first floor and contents severely damaged by fire, rest of building and contents by heat, smoke and water most part of the roof off".

Glad to say there were no casualties at this building.  Publican Mrs E Carter (nee Golding), "retired" to the Tapestries at Old Windsor and survived for another ten years before passing, aged 73 in 1951. Her late husband, Allen George Carter had passed in 1934, age 56, leaving her as the licensee.

I'll post a separate request for images of the pub.  Thank you again Bookbox. 

Does anybody have a photograph of the Angel and Trumpet Public House, 2 High Street, Stepney?
The castellated building stood opposite St Dunstan's, the Parish Church of Stepney, at the junction of the High Street, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney Green and White Horse Lane.
Perhaps it features in the background of an event taking place in the area?
I have looked at the photograph collections at the LMA (including the albums of Watney pubs), Tower Hamlets Library and the London Picture Archive.  The latter has a picture of a vacant lot at the place where it stood until it was destroyed in WWII (see earlier post).  It is now the Stepney City Farm.
My late father and his sisters were all born at the Pub (upstairs, not in the bar) and we plan to celebrate there, what would have been his 100th birthday in May.

Research elsewhere may suggest that this is indeed Arthur Williams (not Wallace). 
An Arthur Williams, born in Toronto, Canada on or about 1 September 1900, was killed in action in French Morocco on 10 November 1942, while serving with the Foreign Legion (Unit 2e, régiment étranger d'infanterie (2e REI)).
This Arthur Williams is buried in French Military Cemetery at Marrakech (Plot H row 15 grave number 327).
Can anybody connect these details with the gentleman in the photograph?  And does anyone know more about this fallen hero (see photograph of the grave).

I have been into the shop, which became a Florists, run by Mrs Florence Beadel and was there until the mid-1960s.  They served the local community, particularly weddings and funerals; the shop was immediately opposite the gates to Tower Hamlets (Bow) cemetery on the corner of (now) Hamlets Way and Southern Grove. 

Thank you again Shaun J and Max D.  I never thought that I would learn the names of his comrades in arms or such a precise location for the place where Jack was injured.

To add some flesh to the bones, here is Jack Taylor with his wife Mary Ann Maud (nee Wright).

I also have a photograph of the brigade at Canterbury, prior to departure for the ME in March 1917, which I shall attach to the next message.

Kevin