Name
Alexander Baird Tyson
23 Jan 1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HENINEL-CROISILLES ROAD CEMETERY
II. B. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
I THANK MY GOD UPON EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF YOU
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, Capt. Alexander Baird Tyson, Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester
Pre War
Alexander Baird Tyson was the second son of Rev. Henry Tyson, Vicar of Cheadle Hume, Cheshire and Eliza Smith.
He was born 23 Jan 1896 and educated at home and Aldenham School, Herts where he was a member of the OTC
Wartime Service
He was due go to Magdalen College Oxford in Oct 1914 but volunteered on outbreak of war and was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant of 4th battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on 15 Aug 1914. He was selected for a permanent commission and attended RMC Sandhurst and transferred to 2nd battalion Jun 1915, promoted to Lieutenant in Dec 1916 and captain in Feb 1917. He served with the BEF in France and Flanders from Aug 1915 and was liked in action at Fontaine-la-Croiselles.
A brother officer wrote: ”All the men, not only of his company, but the battalion, knew him and loved him, and I can only repeat that his loss will always be deeply mourned and regretted." and another; ”In every sense of the word he was a soldier, and a higher tribute cannot be paid to mortal man: all that is inferred, high efficiency, courage of sterling order, and many other attributes, all were his, and the loss incumbent on the 93rd (93rd Foot A&S Highlanders) is inestimable.”
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs. E. S. Tyson of 14A, Holland Villas Rd., Kensington, London, ordered his headstone inscription: "I THANK MY GOD UPON EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF YOU". Elder Brother John Dawson Tyson also served in Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders rising to rank of Captain, being captured at Passchendale in 1917. He had a career in the Indian Civil Service, Knighted, before dying in 1976. Younger brother Henry Alan Maurice Tyson also joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as 2nd Lieutenant in France from 1916. He died in 1975.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
