Name
William Edward Brown Tillyard
About 1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/04/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
15617
Royal Fusiliers *1
13th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHILI TRENCH CEMETERY, GAVRELLE
D. 14.
France
Headstone Inscription
GOD LOVED HIM BEST
UK & Other Memorials
St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey, Oxhey, Herts, War Memorial, Northwood, Middlesex, War Memorial
Pre War
William Edward Brown Tillyard was born in Northwood, Middlesex in about 1897, he was the son of Sarah Ann Tillyard.
In 1901, Sarah was living with her widower father, William Tillyard, a plasterer’s labourer. Her son, William, was three, and they were living at Sunnyside, Hallowell Road, Northwood, Middlesex. Later that year Sarah married Charles Harry Hughes, a Builders Labourer, in Uxbridge, Middlesex. They went on to have five children.
1911 Census records William aged 14, still at school, living with his mother, Stepfather, 3 stepbrothers and 2 stepsisters, at 4 Marion Cottages, Hallowell Road, Northwood.
Wartime Service
William enlisted in London, posted to the Royal Fusiliers (County of London Regiment)*1 with the service number 15617. Serving with the 1st, 22nd*2 & 13th Battalions, landing in France on 7th September 1914. He was killed in action on 29 April 1917.
He is remembered with honour at Chili Trench Cemetery, Gavrelle in France and is commemorated on the memorial at St Matthew’s Church, Oxhey.
Additional Information
His mother Sarah was awarded a Dependants Pension of 3/6 a week, this was increased to 5/- a week in November 1918. The value of his effects were £10-5s-8d, Pay Owing and £15-10s-0d, War Gratuity which went to his mother Sarah Hughes. Son of Mrs. C. H. Hughes, of 104, Hallowell Rd., Northwood, Middx.
‘Additional Information’ provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Kensington).
*2 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (The Queens's).
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
