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Pte. William Type

British Army 9th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders

from:Penyard, Merthyr Tydfil. Wales

(d.18th June 1916)

William Type was killed in action on the 18th of June 1916, aged 24. He is Buried in theCorbie Communal Cemetery Extension in France. He was the son of William and Elizabeth Type, of 8 Garth Terrace, Penyard, Merthyr Tydfil.




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Pte Archibald Campbell Tyre

British Army 1st Btn. Sherwood Foresters

(d.27th May 1918)




222370

Pte. Albert Tyrer

British Army 11th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment

from:Leyland

(d.27th Mar 1918)




226262

Cpl. Ernest Hugh Tyrer

British Army 16th (Cardiff City) Btn. Welch Regiment

from:Bargoed




263632

Cpl. John Melling Tyrer MM.

British Army 165th Coy Machine Gun Corps

from:Liverpool

Jack Tyrer was my Grandad on my mother's side. He served with the King's (Liverpool) Regiment and MAchine Gun Corps. He never spoke about his war experiences but I do know he was awarded the Military Medal during the battle of the Somme.




231800

Pte. Norman Currie Tyrer

Australian Imperial Force 46th (Victoria) Battalion

from:Footscray, VIC

(d.8th June 1917)

Pte. Norman Currie Tyrer, 2001 46 Btn AIF, a tailor by trade, of Footscray VIC, b.3/10/1894 Malvern VIC, Australia; joined AIF 3/4/1916; embarked 5/6/1916 on HMAT Borda A30; Killed at Messines 7/6/1917.

Norman Tyrer, was killed in action in Green Trench (front line and final objective) at Messines on the afternoon of 8th June 1917. The 4th Australian Division including the 46th Battalion had leap-frogged the New Zealand Division, which had taken Messines. Relief was due that evening by a British Divison. At about 5.30pm in the afternoon, a high explosive shell landed in the trench, killing five soldiers instantly including Norman Tyrer.

Red Cross reports later compiled by unit eyewitnesses varied. Some stated that remains were blasted into no-man's land; and others that death was from concussion and bodies were unearthed and buried in unmarked graves at Gooseberry Farm. Several of those who gave Red Cross statements were from Footscray and knew him personally and of his family. One visited the family after the war. It was reported that Private Tyrer had "been in the thick of the fighting" since arriving in France with reinforcements. On the day of his death he had been on stretcher bearer duties and had brought up the rations.

Norman Tyrer was my grandmother's twin-brother.




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Pte. Clifford Henry Tyrrell

British Army 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment

from:5, Priory Lane, Bungay, Suffolk

(d.28th Jan 1917)




262432

Pte. Clifford Henry Tyrrell

British Army 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment

from:Bungay, Suffolk

(d.28th Jan 1917)

Clifford Tyrrell came from Bungay and was married with three children. On 28th of January 1917, at the age of 33, he died of war wounds.




238739

Pte. John Tyrrell

British Army 4th Btn. Connaught Rangers

from:Tullamore

(d.8th February 1916)

Private Tyrrell was the son of Patrick Tyrrell of Barrack St., Tullamore.

He was 19 when he died and is buried in Grave Z.31 in the Durrow (St. Columbcille) Catholic Churchyard, Durrow, Co. Offaly, Ireland.




250893

Pte. George Frederick Tysoe

British Army 11th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment

from:Liverpool

(d.4th April 1918)

George Tysoe was posted to France on 19th May 1915. The 11th Battalion were placed under the control of the Australian 43rd Brigade.

On 4th of Apr 1918 all 270 men of the Battalion were involved in digging trenches on Hill 104 to the North East of Villers Bretonneux. During the work of trench digging two other ranks were listed, in the official record ‘as killed’, George Tysoe was one of these men. His body was never found. It must therefore be assumed he was the victim of enemy artillery fire on his position. He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial in France.

George worked at Ogdena’s Tobacco factory in Liverpool before the war, along with his brother Samuel Tysoe who died 3rd of October 1918 at Boulogne. They were both subsequently commemorated on a plaque that was erected at the Liverpool factory after the war (George was annotated as F Tysoe). The factory closed in 2015 and the plaques were sent to the Imperial Tobacco factory in Nottingham. This factory closed in June 2016 and the plaque will either go to the factory HQ in Bristol or to the National Arboretum. The fate of the plaque is still undecided.




231272

Pte. Samuel Tysoe

British Army 2nd/4th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment

from:53 Sykes St, Everton, Liverpool

(d.3rd Oct 1918)

Samuel Tysoe was the elder brother of Catherine Moore (nee Tysoe). He joined the 2nd/4th (Hallamshires) York and Lancaster Regiment during WW1 and was first drafted to France in August of 1918. His regiment took part in the battle for Havrincourt on the 12th/13th of September 1918, during this battle he was wounded. It was as a result of these wounds that he subsequently died.




250892

Pte. Samuel Eric Tysoe

British Army 2nd/4th (Hallamshire) Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment

from:Liverpool

(d.3rd Oct 1918)

Samuel Tysoe was the elder brother of Catherine Moore (nee Tysoe). He joined the 2nd/4th (Hallamshires) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment during WW1 and was first drafted to France in August of 1918. His regiment took part in the battle for Havrincourt 12th/13th of September 1918, during this battle he was wounded. It was as a result of these wounds that he subsequently died at No 83 General Hospital in Bolougne. He is buried at Terlincthun Cemetery at Wimille.




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Pte. Bertram Tyson

British Army 16th Btn. Highland Light Infantry

from:16 South Port, Selkirk

(d.27th Nov 1917)

Bertram Tyson died aged 21 and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.




208243

Staff Nurse Cecilia Gertrude Tyson

Queen Alexandria's Imperial Military Nursing Serv. HMHS Syria

from:St Helens, Lancashire

My Great Aunt, Gertie Tyson enlisted in 1915 in the Queen Alexandria's Imperial Military Nursing Service having been a Sister at the Royal Infirmary in Hull. She served on the Hospital ships Syria and Varsover for 2 years before choosing not to re-enlist due to 'urgent family matters'. Her brother Fred had died in Belgium 8 months earlier, his body never having been found. His name is on the Menin Gate. I have a photo of Aunt Gertie on board one of the ships with some of her patients. After the war she continued her nursing career and became Matron of a hospital in Hull and after her retirement, a District nurse in Rawcliffe, near Goole.




710

Pte. Edward "Ned" Tyson

Army 6th (Service) Btn. East Lancashire Rgt.

from:Darewn, Lancashire.

Grandad was severely wounded at Gallipoli, where the 6th were fighting. He came from a large Liverpool family who moved to Darwen around 1891. He moved to the Isle of Man in 1930 for health reasons and died in 1967 after a successful business career.




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Gnr. Harry Tyson

Army Durham Royal Garrison Artillery

Gunner Tyson was serving at the Heugh Battery on the 16th December 1914 when the Bombardment of the Hartlepools took place.

The men were billeted at the Borough Hall and at 7.30 that morning, they marched to the battery singing 'Tipperary'. Each man was issued with 250 rounds of .303 for their Lee Enfield rifles, at this time there was a shortage of webbing so the ammunition had to be carried in the pockets of their Greatcoats. Harry Tyson and Jack Wilkinson were assigned to look out duty and whilst most of their fellow gunners retired to the shelters, they marched back and firth btween the Heugh guns with bayonets fixed. As dawn broke the German raiderswere spotted by the gunners aty South Gare on the southern bank of Teesmouth, and Heugh Battery was alerted by telephone,though at this stage the ships were beleived to be British as they were flying the White Ensign and had responded to the signal. There was a British ship in the area, HMS Doon, whose Captain was aware of the true nationality of the newcommers but was out of range of his guns. He led HMS Moy, Test and Waveney as they closed the range and began firing.

At Heugh Captain Trenchman ordered the gun crews to man the guns, Tyson and Wilkinson took up their posts at No. 1 gun as Number 2 and Loading number respectivley. The rangefinder crew took the barings and the guns were laid on the inavders.

"Then all of a sudden the three ships gave us a broadside and Captain Trenchmann called 'Action'"

The first of the shells began to fall and the men at the Maxin machine gun post were wounded. Shells also fell on the houses behind the Battery. The elctrical firing mechanism of No 1 Gun failed after firing two shots and it too several minutes to change to percussio firing whilst No 2 gun continued to get off 30 rounds. The German fire was very accurate, the shells hitting the concrete and bouncing over the Battery to explode on the houses and in the field behind. One shell landed next to the doors of teh ammunition locker but fortunatley did not explode. Teh German ships continued to fire on the Battery and the town for about 15 minutes before repossitioning and aiming at the docks and West Hartlepool. The ceasefire was ordered at 8.53, after 38 minutes in action, as the German ships retreated into the mist. Gunner Tyson noted in Ward's book "Dawn raid"

"I would like to say a word of praise to our cooks, Billy Sanderson and Arthur Hall. They must have been making tea all the time we were in action. As soon as we stopped firing out came buckets of hot tea."

Later that afternoon a group photograph of the gunners was taken







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