Name
Archibald Tarrier
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
The North Herts Mail of June 7th 1917, which mainly relates to Francis Ralph Tarrier, reports that he had three brothers in the army, two in France and one in Blackpool. The School War Memorial reveals that one was Walter William. Parish and census records (including the Hitchin census) identify four sons, and from the records available it seems that all four served.
Archibald was born in1892 and was the son of William Edward and Emma Tarrier (née Jarvis) and so would have been about twenty-two at the outbreak of war. Parish and baptism records list five children: Ida (b c1877), Frederick Edward (bapt 1885), Francis Ralph (b c1888), Walter William (b c1889) and Archibald (b 1892). All the children were born in Pirton, except Ida and Walter, who were born in Ickleford. All his brothers served. Frederick and Walter survived the war and Francis was killed, but he does not appear on the Village War Memorial, but has now been added via the Addenda.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
