Notes
The Roll lists his address as 48 Westwood. It misrecords his regimental number as G58953.
(CWGC currently records that Private W Tupling, regimental number G/89536, died on 6/2/1918 serving in the 20th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, and is buried in grave III.J.5 at Mory Abbey Military Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of Mr F Tupling of 48 Westwood Street, Peterborough.
Contrary to the date held by CWGC, Walter's Army service file records that he was killed in action on 8/2/1918. Documents within the file record that he was aged 18 years 3 months, living at Westwood Street in Peterborough, when he enlisted on 25/2/1917; his parents were recorded as Mary and Fred Tupling of 48 Westwood Street. The casualty form records that Walter was initially in the 28th Training Reserve Battalion, and later with the 30th Training Reserve Battalion, before being transferred to the 5th Battalion Middlesex Regiment on 14/12/1917. On 18/1/1918 he was posted to the 20th Battalion Middlesex Regiment and embarked the same date, joining the 20th Battalion in the field on 25/1/1918. The Casualty form within the Army file was noted that Walter was killed in action on 8/2/1918. The Medical History form likewise recorded that he died on 8/2/1918, as did the Statement of Services form. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects similarly recorded that Walter Tupling was killed in action on 8/2/1918; his mother Mary was his legatee.
The War Diary of the 20th Battalion Middlesex Regiment records that from 2/2/1918 they were at "Mory l'Abbaye" (sic). The Diary recorded no casualties on 6th February; on 8th February it stated that 3 men of other ranks were killed and 3 more were wounded.
[The collective evidence that Walter Tupling's true date of death was 8th February 1918 has been forwarded to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, asking them to consider amending their records and the date on his headstone accordingly].
Walter Tupling's birth had been registered in Peterborough District in 1899. On the 1901 and 1911 census he had been living with his parents in City Road, Peterborough).