Name
William Charles Tijou
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/04/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
49153
Royal Engineers
153rd Field Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Tring memorials
Pre War
William Charles Tijou was born in Tring in 1893 to Charles Arthur Tijou, architectural assistant, and Winifred (nee Barber).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, William, Alice (born 1894), Camilla (born 1898), and Lilian Barber sister to Winifred, were living at 52, Mordaunt Road, Willesden, London.
On the 1911 Census William was working as a cabinet maker and living with his parents, Daisy M (born 1892), Alice, Camilla, Arthur Reginald 9born 1902) and Harold Herbert (born 1904) at 27, St Paul’s Road, Tottenham, Middx.
Charles married Frances Edith Rosaline Parker in 1915, they had a daughter Violet Rosalind born in 1916.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted in the Royal Engineers as Private 49153 and was posted to 153 Field Company in 37 Division.
He went to France on 31 Jul 1915 joining his Company and the Division William was promoted to Sapper. His Field Company supported the Division on the Somme at the Battle of the Ancre (13-15 Nov 1916 and at the Battles of Arras in 1917, - First Scarpe (9-14 Apr), Second Scarpe (23-24 Apr) and Arleux (28-29 Apr). It was in this last action that Willed was killed, his remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Arras Memorial.
Additional Information
No record of War Gratuity or arrears was found.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
