Name
Edward George Tyler
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/08/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
78575
Royal Fusiliers *1
9th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DIVE COPSE BRITISH CEMETERY, SAILLY-LE-SEC
III.H.1
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Baldock memorials, Not on the Letchworth memorials
Pre War
Son of Mr Edward & Mrs Nellie Tyler (nee Kitchener died 1903). Edward (father and son) were both born in Baldock. They were living in Hitchin St, Baldock in 1911 census.
Recorded as born in Baldock and living in Letchworth when he enlisted in Hitchin.
Wartime Service
Formerly 57301, 16th T.R. Battalion.
An article in the Hertfordshire Express dated 28th September 1918 reads; "News has been received of the death in action of Private E G Tyler, Royal Fusiliers, of 17 Green Lan, Letchworth, who was employed at the Heatly-Gresham Engineering Works. He joined the Bedfordshire Regiment, but was afterwards transferred to the Fusiliers."
Additional Information
*1 Probably more correctly (County of London) Bn.
London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
