Name
Ernest Joseph Tyler
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/07/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
10651
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2C
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Tewin Village Memorial, St Peter’s Church Muster Roll, Tewin Family grave, Tewin Churchyard
Pre War
Ernest Joseph Tyler was born in 1895 in Tewin, the son of William and Hannah Tyler, and baptised there on 12 May 1895. He was one of eleven children, but two had died by 1911.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Lower Green, Tewin where his father was a Garden Labourer.
They remained living in Tewin on the 1911 Census and Ernest was then working as Farm Labourer.
Wartime Service
Ernest enlisted in Hertford and served with the 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment in France from 30 July 1915.
He was killed in action on 15 July 1916, during the Battle of Bazentin Ridge when they were involved in an attack on Pozieres from trenches south of Contalmaison and were held up by hostile machine guns about 200 yards from the village boundary. According to the war diary, 3 officers were killed, 32 other ranks killed, (of which 25 were missing presumed dead) and 183 others wounded
Ernest has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £9.00 and pay owing of £3 9s 1d. He also received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
Brother to Herbert Tyler who died on 17 October 1916 and is also listed on the Tewin memorial. Ernest and his brother Herbert are also commemorated on the grave of their sister Emily in Tewin (St. Peter) Churchyard. Their inscription reads:
ERNEST JOSEPH TYLER. PTA. 6TH BEDS REGT. KILLED IN ACTION [FRANCE] JULY 15TH 1916 AGED 21.
“GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.”
HERBERT TYLER, PTA. 11TH YORKS REGT. DIED OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE OCT. 17TH 1917 AGED 35.
“IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH.”
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
