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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Gravestones -
- Bembridge St Luke's Cemetery : Victor Evelyn Tuffley -

Location

In St Luke's Cemetery, Bembridge, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Additional inscription on family gravestone.
Gravestone

Bembridge St Luke's Cemetery : V E Tuffley
 
Bembridge St Luke's Cemetery : V E Tuffley
 
Inscription


Remember in the Lord
MARY ANNE TUFFLEY
DIED
JUNE 20TH 1910,
AGED 50

VICTOR EVELYN TUFFLEY, DSO, MC
LIEUT 10TH LONDON REGT
KILLED IN ACTION SEPT 7TH 1918
BURIED AT LIERAMONT [...]


 
Further Information

Son of : Wallace Tuffley and Mary Anne Tuffley (née Sears), of Bembridge, Isle of Wight.

Born : 1895, Bembridge.

Census information :

1901 : Mary Anne Tuffley, with her children including Victor aged 6, are at Quarryville, Foreland Road, Bembridge, Isle of Wight. Mary Anne Tuffley is a Grocer and Provision Merchant.

1911 : Victor Tuffley aged 15 is a Clerk in the Drapery Warehouse of J Howell & Co Ltd at 1 Addle Hill, City of London.

Service information :

Lt Victor Evelyn Tuffley, 10th Bn., London Regiment.

Awarded D.S.O., M.C., Mentioned in Despatches.

Casualty information :

Died : 7 September 1918 aged 23.

Buried at : Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France. Originally buried at Lieramont.

CWGC record ...

Commemorated at :

Bembridge Parish War Memorial
Bembridge Holy Trinity Church War Memorial
Carisbrooke Castle County War Memorial Panel 13

Documents and newspaper cuttings :



Isle of Wight County Press, 5 Dec 1914


 
Page last updated : 21 January 2015 (added biographical information)


 
 

 
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