Name
Bertie Tyler
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25412
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
1st/6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WELLINGTON CEMETERY, RIEUX-EN-CAMBRESIS
II. F. 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield Town Memorial, Hatfield In Memoriam Book, Not on the Digswell memorial
Pre War
christened on 9th October 1898, and the son of James and Emily Elizabeth Taylor.
In the 1901 census Bertie was 2 and living in the family home at Black Farm, Tewin. The family consisted of his parents and children: James (14), Frederick (11), (Ada) Florence (9), George (7), Mary Elizabeth (4) and Bertie (2). Also present was lodger, James Simpson. His father was working as a farm stockman agricultural cattle. By 1911 they had moved to Welham Green, North Mymms and in the census present were his parents and brothers George and Berties with lodger Richard Horne. James is working as a horseman on farm. That census reveals that James and Emily had been married for 27 years and have nine children of whom two had died. One of the unnamed children was Albert 16 in Bertie’s service record.
Officially recorded as born in Digswell Water and was living in Hatfield when he enlisted in Cricklewood.
Wartime Service
Bertie was attested on the 07/09/1916, probably by conscription, he was 18 and living at, Wild Hill, Hatfield and gave his occupation as a Cowman. The record shows that he was born in Digswell. He was 5ft 5 inches tall.
He joined the Army Reserves and was mobilised on 4th March 1917 and on 23rd June 1917 transferred as Private No 9941, 3rd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. He had a bout of influenza from 19th to 28th November 1917. He began overseas service in France from 13th September 1917 and on the 15th was transferred to the 12th Bn. Suffolk Regiment.
On 11th March 1918 he was admitted to No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station with Otitis Media - an infection of the middle ear. It causes inflammation (redness and swelling) and a build-up of fluid behind the eardrum. He was sent to Doullens on the 15th and by the 24th was in England. It is unclear what happened next but he was admitted to hospital 11th June 1918 in North Camp Ripon and not discharged until 2nd August, the diagnosis confirmed as Mea Otitis Media -
On the 6/9/1918 he was posted to the Base Depot in France and then on the 7th to the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) 1st/6th Bn., as Private 25412, joining them in the field on the 10th September and was killed in action on the 11th October/10/1918.
Awarded the British War Medal & Victory Medal.
Additional Information
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Mrs Tyler (Mother) of Wild Hill received an “In Memoriam & Roll of Honour Album”.
Acknowledgments
Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
