Basic Details
Surname
Tyler
Forenames
Reginald Thomas
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Service number
14542
Notes
The Roll lists his address as 69 Percival Street, and states that he died of wounds at "Surmay Field Hospital"; he is recorded in an Army document as having died at a Lazarett Field Hospital in Seclin.

(CWGC records that Private Reginald Thomas Tyler, regimental number 14542, died aged 20 on 30/9/1915 while serving in 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is now buried in grave VIII.J.10 at Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery at Souchet in France, having been exhumed after the War from Seclin Communal Cemetery German Extension. They record him as the son of Mrs R.A. Sharp of 69 Percival Street, Peterborough.
The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Reginald died on 30/9/1915 at a Field Lazarett in Seclin, and that his mother Rose Ann Sharp was his legatee.
Reginald's birth was registered in Peterborough in 1895. On the 1901 census he was living with his widowed mother Rose at 48 Percival Street in Peterborough. (Reginald's father, Thomas Henry Tyler, had died aged 36 in 1899). On the 1911 census Reginald was living with his mother Rose Ann and her 2nd husband Francis Sharp at 48 Percival Street).
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Northants Regt
Sub-unit (Primary - Stated)
7th
Rank / Title (Primary - Stated)
Pte
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
Not Stated on Memorial
Town of death
Surmay
Country of burial
Not Stated on Memorial
Cemetery
Not Stated on Memorial
Year of death
1915
Month of death
September
Day of death
30
Manner of death as stated
Died of Wounds "at Surmay Field Hospital, whilst a Prisoner of War".
Manner of death reference
Died of Wounds
Personal Details
Address
69 PERCIVAL STREET
Occupation
Not Stated on Memorial