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George Tindall
British Army Royal Artillery
from:Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire
Not much is known about my grandfather George Tindall's WW1 service other than photos in his uniform. He was born in Ryhill, West Yorkshire on the 2 July 1894. He did, however, live in Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire for most of his life. My Grandfather survived WW1 but was severely injured in an explosion down the pit in the twenties. He was blind for the rest of his life! He died in 1974 at the age of 80.
Sgt. Walter John Tindall MM.
British Army 16th (Boys Brigade) Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Windsor, Berks.,
(d.17th Apr 1918)
Wally Tindall was one of my mother's maternal uncles. He was much older than Mum - she was only aged 7, when he died of his wounds at the 62nd CCS [Bandaghem]. When Mum died, and I had to triage her papers, I found a sheaf of "letters from the front" that he'd managed to find time to write to her, right from his enlistment, up to a few days before the German attack of April, 1918.
I've never managed to track down the Citation for his Military Medal, and our family would be very grateful to have a copy of the Text. He survived the hell of High Wood in July and August 1916, and I suspect he may have earned his MM in those Actions, but it would be nice to know for sure.
I managed to track what his Company was doing in Neuve Eglise in late March and early April, but have never managed to get sight of the war Diary for the Composite Battalion. Wally got ordered to join after losing touch with his officers during C Company's retreat from Neuve Eglise after the German breakthrough there. However, he was wounded as a member of that hastily-assembled scratch Composite Battn, when he was fatally wounded in the hastily-dug Trenches below Locre Chateau in the 2nd week of April, 1918. I think that Battalion was mainly composed of elements of the 2nd Worcesters, and the 1/9th HLI, and the 16th KRRC, with anyone else who could fire a rifle and who had been separated from their Units in the retreat ahead of the German combat teams. So, I would dearly love to get my hands of copies of the Composite Battalion's War Diary for those few critical last days of Sgt. Tindall's life. From the info. I have, Sgt. Tindall was not so severely wounded as to be thought beyond Cas-Evac; and the fact that he survived to reach 62nd CCS 16 kms away suggests to me that he either died of shock or infection. His Service record only states "DoW, 62nd CCS".
If anyone either has a copy of that Composite Battalion's April 1918 War Diary - or knows where I would find it and under what search title, I'd be very pleased to hear from them.
Pte. R. Tindle
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Birtley
Pte. Thomas Tingey
British Army 19th Btn. Manchester Regiment
(d.17th October 1918)
Thomas Tingey died whilst a POW on the 17th of October 1918. He is buried in the Niederzwehren Cemetery in Germany.
Pte. Charles Albert Tinkler
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Spr. William Ivan Tinkler
British Army 526th (1st Durham) Field Company Royal Engineers
(d.Sept 1917)
Pte. John Tinlin MID
British Army 2nd Btn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
from:Galashiels, Selkirk
(d.18th April 1915)
John Tinlin was a Private in the 2nd battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers. He died on Hill 60, Ypres during WW1.
Cpl. Albert Edward Tinsley MM.
British Army 12th Battalion Manchester Regiment
from:Alderley Edge
I remember my great uncle Ted when I was a child, but it was not until his daughter Alice died in the 1980s that I realised what he must have gone through during the Great War. On clearing the house I came across some letters and documents which detail some of his movements from 1914 to 1919.
Ted enlisted at the age of twenty in the 12th Battalion Manchester Regiment at Ashton Under Lyne and soon embarked for France. Somehow he managed to come through it all and I have his gallantry citation awarded 26th August 1918 for actions at Martinpuich and High Wood where he was awarded the Military Medal. Shortly after he was captured by the Germans and I have the letter from his commanding officer to his wife stating that he was missing from 9th September. I also have his dog tag and demob certificates.
I remember him quite well as he was a bit of a character in the village where I grew up, and as children we never knew what he and his pals had gone through.
Albert William Tinsley MMil.
British Army Lancashire Fusiliers
My grandfather Albert William Tinsley was a Company Sergeant Major in 14-18 war in the Lancashire Fusiliers. He was killed in action having saved a french officer's life and won the Medalle Militaire. My grandad is buried in Tyne Cott, Ypres, Belgium. I would love to find out more of the Army Company he was in if anyone can help.
Gnr. Cyril Tinsley
British Army 3rd Reserve Btn. Royal Field Artillery
from:183 New Hampton Road West, Wolverhampton
(d.11th April 1917)
It is known that Cyril Tinsley joined the Army in 1916 after serving for three years with Wellington Post Office in Shropshire. He was sent to two Training Camps before becoming ill and was admitted to the Military Hospital in Higham Ferrers where he died from Bronchial Pneumonia after being a patient for five days. His body was transferred with an escort, back home to Wolverhampton for burial.
2nd Lt. Edmund Tiplady
British Army 1/1st West Riding Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Bradford, West Riding
Edmund Tiplady joined the Territorial Force, West Yorkshire Artillery Regiment during August 1912. The war started when they were on their annual camp in August 1914, which meant that he was in uniform right from the beginning until he was discharged on March the 25th 1919.
He first saw action during the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, where he was injured during one of the first chlorine gas attacks. He served in France and Belgium right through the war, first with the West Yorkshire Artillery Regiment, before being seconded to the Royal Flying Corps as an aerial artillery observer. He was commissioned in the field on 22nd of July 1918, before returning to England to undertake pilot training.
Although Edmund had a fairly good war compared to a lot of his contemporaries, he suffered with the after effects of being gassed for the rest of his life and finally succumbed to a lung infection on May 23rd 1955. It only took 40 years, but the German gas killed him in the end. I know of the above due to my late Grandmother Gwendoline Tiplady.
Gunner Stephen Gladstone Tipper
British Army 23rd Divisional Trench Mortar Battery Royal Artillery
from:Southsea
Pte. Alfred Tipping MM.
British Army 9th Btn. Cameronian Scottish Rifles
from:Padiham
(d.22nd Oct 1916)
Alfred Tipping who served in the 9th Battalion, Cameronian Scottish Rifles, was my great uncle - as told by his sister - Alfred had won his medal for helping the wounded and was later killed on the 22nd October 1916 during the attack on the Butte De Wahrencourt. His name is on the Thiepval Memorial.
Pte. Alfred Tipping MM
British Army 9th Btn. Cameronian Scottish Rifles
from:Padiham Lancs
(d.22nd Oct 1916)
17710 Private Alfred Tipping MM served with the 9th Battalion, Cameronian Rifles during WW1 and died on the 22nd October 1916. He was awarded the Military Medal.
Dvr. Fred Tipping
British Army 42 Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Pte. George Tipping
British Army 27th Btn. Cameronian Scottish Rifles
from:Padiham
George Tipping served with the 9th Battalion Cameronian Scottish Rifles and was injured prior to the Battle of Loos. George died from his wounds on the 22nd of September 1915, three days before the main battle of Loos. He his buried in Bethune Town Cemetery, France.
His brother Alfred Tipping MM who served in the same unit was killed on the 22nd of October 1916.
Pte. George Tipping
British Army 9th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
from:Padiham, Lancs
(d.22nd Sep 1915)
George Tipping was killed in action on the 22nd of September 1915, aged 20. Buried in Bethune Town Cemetery in France, he was the son of Lawrence and Alice Tipping, of 36 Guy St., Padiham, Lancs.
Pte. William James Tipping
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast
(d.1st July 1916)
William Tipping was killed in action.
Sub-Lt. Arthur Walderne St.Clair Tisdall VC.
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Anson Btn
from:Deal, Kent
(d.6th May 1915)
Arthur Tisdall, aged 24 is commemorated on the Helles Memorial in Gallipoli, Turkey He was the son of Rev. Dr. Tisdall, D.D. (Vicar of Deal), and his wife, Marian L. Tisdall, of St. George's Vicarage, Deal, Kent. He was a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. (Double First Class Classical Honours) was a Chancellor's Gold Medallist, Cambridge and had been employed as a First Class Clerk with the Civil Service in the Treasury.
An extract from The London Gazette, No. 29530, dated 31st March, 1916, records the following:- "During the landing from the S.S. River Clyde at V Beach, in the Gallipoli Peninsula, on the 25th April, 1915, Sub. Lieut. Tisdall, hearing wounded men on the beach calling for assistance, jumped into the water, and, pushing a boat in front of him, went to their rescue. He was, however, obliged to obtain help, and took with him on two trips, Ldg. Smn. Malia; and on other trips, Ch. P.O. Perring and Ldg. Smn. Curtis and Parkinson. In all, Sub. Lieut. Tisdall made four or five trips between the ship and the shore, and was thus responsible for rescuing several wounded men under heavy and accurate fire. Owing to the fact that Sub. Lieut. Tisdall and the platoon under his orders were on detached service at the time, and that this officer was killed in action on the 6th May, it has only now been possible to obtain complete information as to the individuals who took part in this gallant act. Of these, Ldg. Smn. Fred Curtis, DEV/1899/C, has been missing since the 4th June, 1915."
Edward John Titcomb
British Army 12th (The Rangers) Battalion London Regiment
Ed Titcomb was my Grandfather. He volunteered in WW1 at the start. He was in The Rangers, eventually, he fought in the Somme. He was severely injured and I have the original letter from the Matron of the hospital on the Somme and then again when he was repatriated for recovery and recuperation in the UK. I have another original letter from the Matron telling us when he was going back for repatriation, and to his mother, and again sending him back to the Fighting Fields.
My Grandfather survived WW1 and then again signed up for ARP and Home Guard for Whiteleys Store back in 1939. He did once put out a fire, strangely enough he met a mate on the roof when Firefighting, with whom he served in WW1. They became best mates and loved each other. My Grandad told me all about the battles as a little girl, he fought the Somme, Ypres, etc and I learnt so much from him. Without him in my life I would not have visited the graves of Ypres, The Somme, Paschendale etc. I will be always be grateful with total love for my beloved Grandad being in my life.
Rflmn. Ernest James Titcomb
British Army 12th Btn. London Regiment
from:Guildford
(d.7th Oct 1916)
My great uncle Ernest Titcomb died on the 7th of October 1916. His name is recorded on the Thiepval Memorial.
Pte. Walter Edmond Titcombe
British Army 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
from:Swindon
My great grandfather, Walter Titcombe, fought at the Battle of Mons and at some point was taken captive. He was sent to Germany and spent the rest of the war as a POW. He became allocated to a local farm as a source of free labour. He cut tiny slithers from the turnips he was harvesting and ate them raw as like other POWs he was extremely malnourished. By all accounts he was a very quiet man after the war and didn't like to talk of his experiences very much.
Spr. Jonathan Tither
Australian Imperial Force. 1st Australian Tunneling Company
Jonty Tither left England sometime after 1906 and worked in Abermain NSW until he joined up in April 1916. He served with the 4th Tunnelling Coy then transferred to the 1st Tunnelling Coy 1916 in France. He was demobed in Aapril 1919 in England and returned to Lancashire to my grandmother and their two sons, my father was born in 1920. Jonty died in November 1943, I have his medals but few memories of this side of the family.
Pte. Walter J. Titheridge
British Army 6th (Service) Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:East Tisted, Hants
(d.11th May 1918)
L/Cpl. Bertie Edmund Titmas
British Army 12th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:London, England
(d.16th Aug 1917)
Bertie Titmas was my Mother's Father born c.1881. He was killed in action in possibly at the Battle of Langemarck, Third battle of Ypres 16-18 August 1917. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Tyne-Cot Memorial He was born in Stepney, Middlesex and enlisted at Ratcliffe. He was married to Charlotte nee Bonner, and had at least 6 children.
L/Cpl. Alfred Titmus
British Army Army Service Corps
from:Bedfordshire
I have a picture of my grandfather, Alfred Titmus, as a Lance Corporal in the Army Service Corps around 1915-1916 in France where he was billeted. He was an exceptional Motor Engineer and volunteered for service in 1915. At the time of volunteering he was employed by Dunn the Hatter, an aristocrat and a pacifist.
Grandad was married with a very young child and lived in a tied cottage to his employer. He was threatened with dismissal if he signed up in the Army. He signed up, was evicted and left with his wife and child on a horse and cart in the middle of winter. He settled my grandmother and father in premises in London and then went off to the Army.
After the War he started a garage in Liverpool, went to Australia for a time, and then returned and was largely responsible for wiring up the West End of London between the wars. He finished his days in Tankerton, Kent when I used to take him for walks along the sea shore there. He passed away in 1960. He never wanted to really talk about his experiences. I have always been proud of what he did.
Driver Abraham Tittensor
British Army 5 Pontoon Park Royal Engineers
from:Newcastle, Staffordshire
Drummer. William Albert Titterton
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.6th May 1915)
Pte. Fredrick Joseph Tivey
British Army 7th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
from:Coalville
(d.27th May 1918)
Frederick J Tivey was my great uncle killed 27 May 1918 in the Battle for Aisne.
Pte. James Tobin
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Kilkenny
(d.4th January 1917)
Private Tobin was the Son of Mrs M Tobin of Garden Row, Kilkenny.
He is buried in the north west part of the Kilkenny New Cemetery, Kilkenny, Ireland.
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