Name
Arthur Samuel Tinniswoode
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/08/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
15385
Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KARASOULI MILITARY CEMETERY
Row B, Grave 395.
Greece
UK & Other Memorials
Sun Engraving Company Memorial, Watford,
Kingston War Memorial, Surrey,
St Peter's Church Memorial, Norbiton, Surrey
Pre War
Son of Arthur Henry and Clara Harriet (nee PAGE) TINNISWOOD of Kingston-on Thames, Surrey.
His parents married 29 June 1890 at St Peter’s, Norbiton, Surrey. Arthur died 29 October 1937 in Kingston aged 75; Clara died 1951 in the Cambridge district aged 88.
Arthur was born 1 November 1893 in Kingston-on-Thames, and baptised 26 November 1893 at St Peter’s, Norbiton. He resided in Kingston.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in Kingston, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, an apprentice etcher aged 17, he still lived in Kingston, with his parents and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Brentford, Middx; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 21 September 1915, and died of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Arthur’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
