Name
Claud Tilbury
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/08/1916
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/24440
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 12 D and 13 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing in France.
UK & Other Memorials
Wheathampstead Village Memorial,
St. Peter's Church Memorial, Gustard Wood
Pre War
Claud(e) Tilbury was born in Gustard Wood, Hertfordshire, in 1889, son of George Tilbury, a Domestic Gardener and Mary Tilbury (nee Moulden). One of eight children three having died in infancy. He was baptised on 31 March 1889, in the St Helen’s Parish Church, Wheathampstead, Herts. The 1891 Census records Claud(e) aged 2, living with his parents, sisters Ellen (born 1872), Rose (born 1884) and brother George William (born 1875) in Gustard Woods, Herts.
His mother Mary died in late 1900, aged 55. Her death was registered in St. Albans.
The 1901 Census records Claud(e) aged 12, living with his widower father and sister Ellen in Gustard Wood, Herts. and in 1911 Census. Claud is recorded as a boarder, with Mrs Emily Chilton of 51, Tackbrook Road, Feltham, Middx, and working as a Nursery Greenhouse Plant Grower.
Claude married Ethel Bygrave, the daughter of James and Georgina Bygrave of Wheathampstead, Herts, on 16 January 1915 in Staines, Middlesex. They went on to have one son, George Claud Tilbury, born 1915
Wartime Service
Claud (as the Army knew him) enlisted at Hounslow, Middx, and was posted to the 1st Battalion, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) with the service number G/24440.
No Service Records could be found for Claud. The 1st Middlesex returned to the Front line on 25 Aug 1916 from Reserve. Claud was killed in action on 26 August 1916, during the Battle of Delville Wood (14 July to 3 September 1916) (Part of the Battle of the Somme).
He has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing on the Somme, France.
He has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing on the Somme, France.
Additional Information
His wife Ethel received a widow’s pension of 15/- a week from 19 March 1917, her pension card records her address as Moss Cottages, Gustard Wood, Herts, and his effects of £2-16s-8d, Pay Owing and War Gratuity of £3.
His elder brother George Tilbury served with the Bedfordshire Regiment and then the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). He died of Illness on 30 December 1919.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne, Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
