Name
Joseph Lionel Allanson Tyrrell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/03/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Northamptonshire Regiment
8th Bn. attd. 5th Bn.
"A" Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 91 to 93.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Joseph was the only son of Joseph Henry and Alice (nee Mabey) Tyrrell, of "Castleknock", Twickenham, Middx. Born in Watford. He was educated at Pembroke House School in Hampton and King's College School, Wimbledon.
His De Ruvigny listing states:
[Joseph] "served four years in the O.T.C. at King's College School; was a member of the Bisley team for the Ashburnham Shield, and in the second Rugby football team of the school and was a good shot both with the shot-gun and rifle; hon. secretary of the Twickenham branch of the Junior Imperial League, and member of the committee of the Conservative Association there. He was betrothed to the eldest dau. of J. J. Morris, of the London & Provincial Bank, Twickenham"
Wartime Service
He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the 24th of November 1914 and joined at Shoreham Camp the following 1st of December.
Joseph went to France in October 1915. De Ruvigny reports:
[he] "took part in several engagements; was leading his platoon in the centre of an attack ordered to consolidate a crater made by the explosion of a German mine, when he was instantaneously killed in action before the Hohenzollern Redoubt, near Vermelles, 2 March 1916. Buried where he fell. A memorial service was held at St. Mary's Parish Church, Twickenham, before a large congregation, the Last Post being sounded by four buglers from Kneller Hall School of music. His Captain wrote: "My company was concerned in an advance during the evening of Thursday, 2nd inst., your son being in the centre with hsi platoon. We miss him fearfully in the mess, and his platoon is greatly upset, as he always looked after them, and they were always well led. He died a soldier's death, and is there anything finer?" His Commanding Officer stated that had he survived he would have been recommended for mention in Despatches and for honours."
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Jonty Wild
