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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC Headstones -
- Sandown Christ Church : Albert Tyler -

Location

In Churchyard of Christ Church, The Broadway, Sandown, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Additional inscription on family grave
Headstone

Sandown Christ Church : Albert Tyler
 
Inscription


TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF
COL. HENRY EDWARD TYLER, R.E.
BORN 23 JULY 1856 DIED 20 JAN 1922
ALSO OF ALBERT TYLER, LT. R.E.
KILLED IN ACTION 12 NOV 1914 AGED 21.
HIS SERVANTS SHALL SERVE HIM.


 
Further Information

Son of Mrs. H. E. Tyler (Martha Frances (née Rowland)), of Chester Lodge, Sandown, Isle of Wight, and the late Col. Henry Edward Tyler.

Born : 1 Feb 1893, Greenwich, Kent.

Census Infromation :

1901 : Henry and Martha Tyler, with Albert aged 8, are at Parterre, Broadway, Sandown, Isle of Wight.

1911 : Henry and Martha Tyler, with Albert aged 18, are at Wetherden, Warwick's Bank, Guildford, Surrey. Albert Tyler is a Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Service Information :

Lieut. Albert Tyler, Royal Engineers.

Mentioned in despatches. See entry below from de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour.

Casualty Information :

Died 12 Nov 1914, aged 21.

Commemorated at : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

CWGC record ...
 
Documents and newspaper cuttings :



Note that his uncle died the previous day.

CWGC record for Alfred Herbert Tyler.


 


 
 

 
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