Gunner 212890 Horace TILLEY

South Warwickshire Family History Society War Memorial Transcription Project

The Fallen Men of South Warwickshire - World War One

Gunner 212890 Horace TILLEY - D Battery, 52nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

Killed in Action on Friday 27th September 1918 aged 20

Military History


Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders	British War & Victory Medals	Dominion Cemetery, Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt

Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
After 1 Apr 1917	~	Clifton upon Dunsmore

Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Attested	Other War Memorials
Hundred Days Offensive	November 1915 at Rugby	Rugby Memorial Gates

Place of Death	Date and Place Mobilised
near Buissy	March 1917 at Rugby

Circumstances of Death

Horace is listed as being killed in action on 27 Sep 1918. The 52nd Brigade War Diary entry for 27th & 28th September is transcribed below along with an obituary in the Rugby Advertiser.

War Diary

SE of Buissy - Sept 27^th – 5.20am: At zero hour the Bde opened a creeping barrage covering the 1^st Canadian Division in their attack on Sains les Marquion. The battery area came under heavy hostile retaliation. Lt. R.E. Arnold (A Battery) and several OR’s wounded.

The FOO [Forward Observation Officer] party casualties of Lt. H. Lee (A Battery) and 2 signallers were also wounded early in the day.

At zero plus 595 minutes the Bde passed on the tactical control of the 11^th D.A on the left flank of the Canadian Corps.

Sept 28: The Bde moved up during the night of 27/28^th to positions in W 11 D and W 11 A firing north across the Canal de la Sensee. Bde O.P. [Observation Post] established on the high ground near Foisy le Verger. Bde covering 34^th I. Bde [Infantry Brigade]

Obituary

Rugby Advertiser

Mr A H Tilley, 46 Railway Terrace, has received news that his son, Horace, a gunner in the Royal Artillery, was killed while gun laying on September 27^th. He was 20 years of age, and before enlisting in March, 1917, was employed in the Controller Department at the B.T.H. In a letter to the parents his sergeant says:- “ I lost in your son a very useful lad, an intelligent gunner, conscientious and thoroughly reliable taking, as he did, a great interest in his work".

Personal & Family History

Birth Date/Place	Baptism Date/Place
Apr Qtr 1898 at Beckenham, Kent

Parents Names	Abode
Alfred and Mary Tilley	46 Railway Terrace, Rugby

Schools	Colleges
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Address History	Employment History
1898 - Beckenham	1911 - School
1901 - 28 Chancery Lane, Beckenham	1914 - Controllers Dept at British Thomson-Houston
1911 - Newton Road, Clifton on Dunsmore
1915 - Church Street, Clifton on Dunsmore
1918 - 46 Railway Terrace, Rugby

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