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Sirhind Brigade, Lahore Division, Indian Expeditionary Force, Sept.
1914; and was killed in action at Festubert, on the morning of 20 Dec.
following; _unm._ His Commanding Officer wrote: "He was as fine a
soldier as one could wish to see and a true and affectionate comrade,
and he met his soldier's death just in the manner all who knew him,
knew he would."
[Illustration: =C. M. Pitts Tucker.=]
=TUCKWOOD, LESLIE EDGAR=, Private, No. 9964, 1st Battn. Princess
Charlotte of Wales's Royal Berkshire Regt., yst. _s._ of the late
Charles Tuckwood, of 82, Wightman Road, Hornsey, Music Publisher;
_b._ Harringay, 1891; joined the Navy in 1912, was transferred to
the Army in 1913, and was killed in action at the Battle on the Aisne,
14 Sept. 1914; _unm._
=TUDBALL, THOMAS JOHN=, Private, No. 5499, 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of John Tudball, of Bench Cottage, West Harwood,
Timberscombe, near Dunster, co. Somerset, Farm Labourer, by his wife,
Anna; _b._ Timberscombe aforesaid, 25 Dec. 1884; educ. Endowed
Church School there; was a Farm Labourer and Ploughman: enlisted in the
Coldstreams on 29 March, 1904; served with the Expeditionary Force in
France, 21 Aug. to 21 Dec. 1914, and from 9 Jan. 1915; and was killed
in action at Givenchy, 25 Jan. 1915.
=TUDWAY, HERVEY ROBERT CHARLES=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier
Guards, eldest _s._ of Charles Clement Tudway, of The Cedars,
Stoberry Park, and Milton Lodge, Wells, Somerset, J.P., D.L., by his
2nd wife, Alice Constance, yst. dau. of Sir Frederick Hutchinson
Hervey-Bathurst, 3rd Bart.; _b._ 17, Lower Berkeley Street, W.,
23 Sept. 1888; educ. Evelyns and Eton, where he was in the sixth form
and Eton Society; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Grenadier Guards, 1 Feb. 1910,
and promoted Lieut. 29 Sept. following; was appointed A.D.C. to Lord
Buxton, and sailed for South Africa, 25 July, 1914, but hearing of the
outbreak of war on his arrival there, cabled to Lord Buxton, who was in
England, for leave; returned immediately and rejoined his regt.; went
to the Front; joined the 2nd Battn. at Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914, and died in
hospital at Boulogne, 18 Nov. following, of wounds in the head received
at the 1st Battle of Ypres on the 9th; _unm._ He was buried in
the cemetery at Boulogne. A brass tablet was erected to his memory in
the North Choir Aisle of Wells Cathedral, the inscription concluding
with; "His life for his country, his soul to God." Lieut. Tudway was
a keen sportsman and cricketer, and played for the Brigade, I.Z. and
M.C.C. His brother, Lieut. Lionel C. P. Tudway, R.N., D.S.O., was taken
prisoner at Kut when in command of H.M.S. Sumara.
[Illustration: =Hervey R. C. Tudway.=]
=TUFF, CECIL THOMAS=, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. The
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt., 3rd _s._ of Charles Tuff, of
Westfield, Singlewell, near Gravesend, and Rochester, J.P., formerly
M.P. for Rochester, by his wife, Marian, dau. of George William Gill;
_b._ Rochester, 16 Aug. 1885; educ. Abbey School, Beckenham, and
Malvern College; obtained a commission in the Royal West Kent Militia
in 1905; but resigned in or about 1911 rejoining as a Lieut. the day
war was declared. He was gazetted Capt. to 3rd Royal West Kents, 26
Sept. 1914; went to France, 25 Nov. following, where he was attd. to
the 1st Battn., and was killed in action at Hill 60, near Ypres, 15
April, 1915. Buried Hill 60; _unm._
[Illustration: =Cecil Thomas Tuff.=]
=TUFNELL, CARLETON WYNDHAM=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards,
3rd _s._ of Carleton Fowell Tufnell, of Waterdone Manor, Kenley,
Surrey, by his wife, Laura Gertrude, dau. of William Parker Charsley,
of Ceylon, M.D.; _b._ Sydenham, co. Kent, 5 Aug. 1892; educ. Eton
and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Grenadier Guards, 4 Sept. 1912;
left for France in Sept. 1914, and was promoted Lieut. He was mortally
wounded near Klein Zillebeke, during the first Battle of Ypres, on the
evening of 6 Nov. 1914, dying shortly after he reached hospital. He
was machine gun officer of his Battn., and was hit whilst taking up a
position. Buried in Zillebeke Churchyard; _unm._ At Eton, Lieut.
Tufnell was one of the best all-round athletes that the school has
known. He was captain of the Eleven, Keeper of the Field (two years),
Keeper of Oppadon Wall and Mixed Wall, and President of the Eton
Society ("Pop."). He won the Victor Ludorum Prize at athletic sports,
and the King's medal in the O.T.C. At Sandhurst, he was captain of the
cricket, association football, and athletic team, and later played
cricket for the Household Brigade, M.C.C., and Zingari, and represented
the British Army against the Dutch Army at "Soccer," both in England
and Holland, in the season of 1914-15.
=TULETT, THOMAS=, Acting Leading Stoker, 296909, H.M.S. Cressy;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TULIP, JOHN JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5840), S.S.
106376, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=TULLY, DAVID=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9914), S.S. 107383,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914.
=TUNE, JOHN SKERROW=, Private, No. 5435, 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of the late John Tune; _b._ Birmingham, 23
April, 1882; educ. Sherborne Road Board School there; enlisted 22 Feb.
1901; was reported missing after the fighting at Givenchy, Belgium,
and later to have been killed in action, 22 Dec. 1914. Tune had the
Good Conduct Badge granted, 22 Feb. 1906. He _m._ at Birmingham,
1910, Sarah Ann (16, Eastbourne Terrace, Herbert Road, Small Heath,
Birmingham), eldest dau. of the late William Smith, of 32, Frazier
Street, Oldburn, Staffs, and had three children: Rosina May, _b._
3 Dec. 1910; Olive Florence Ada, _b._ 8 July, 1912, and Beatrice
Maud, _b._ 15 April, 1915.
[Illustration: =John Skerrow Tune.=]
=TUPPER, ERNEST=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10769),
300721, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TURNBULL, DERWENT CHRISTOPHER=, M.B., Lieut., R.A.M.C., 5th
_s._ of William Peverill Turnbull, of Burway House, Church
Stretton, co. Salop, late H.M. Divisional Inspector of Schools, by
his wife, Fanny, dau. of the late Edwin John Hayes, Town Clerk of
Birmingham; _b._ Stockwell End, Wolverhampton, 28 Aug. 1890; educ.
Private Schools, Sheffield, the Sheffield Royal Grammar School, and
King Edward VII's School at Sheffield, Giggleswick School, and the
University of Sheffield; volunteered in 1914, obtained a commission as
Lieut. in the R.A.M.C. Dec. 1914; was for some weeks a medical officer
at King George V's Hospital, Dublin; went to France 15 Feb. 1915; was
attd. to 84th Field Ambulance, 28th Division, but on 9 March was lent
as a temporary M.O. to the 1st Battn. Cheshire Regt., and died at St.
Eloi, 14 March, 1915, having been wounded on the 10th; _unm._ He
was buried in a burial ground at Ypres. On the morning of 10 March,
1915, while Lieut. D. C. Turnbull was in his dressing station, a
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