Name
(Bertie) Albert Edward Tyler
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/04/1915
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14344
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 31 and 33.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar, Hatfield War Memorial, Not on the Lemsford memorial, Not on the North Mymms memorials
Pre War
Born in Lemsford, Hertfordshire in 1897. In 1911 he was a Garden Boy living with his parents Percy Samuel and Matilda Elizabeth Tyler and 3 younger siblings at Warren Wood Lodge, Kentish Lane.
Recorded as born in Hatfield and living there when he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford while resident in Hatfield. Service number 14344 suggests he enlisted in early September 1914. Landed in France, 24 March 1915.
Killed in action during the Battle of Hill 60 (south of Ypres). The battalion war diary states “21 Apr 1915 – Reningelst. Bombardment & counter attacks continued during early morning & position critical at times. Casualties very heavy. Enemy’s machine guns partially enfiladed reverse of Hill 60, trench mortar bombarded it, & field guns were brought up to within about 30 yards & fired point blank at parapet, blowing it to pieces & mangling the defenders. Casualties of Bedfords 4 officers killed, 8 wounded. Other ranks over four hundred.”
Additional Information
This man's link to North Mymms has not yet been confirmed by HAW research, but does appear on a local list of the fallen.
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope, Mike Allen, Jonty Wild, Paul Johnson