Private 25504 John TUSON
4th Brigade, South Wales Borderersformerly 70257 Royal Field Artillery
Killed in Action, Sunday 9th April 1916, Mesopotamia, Age 17
Home address:
26 Ridling Lane, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1899, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Elizabeth Tuson and William Tuson
26 Ridling Lane, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
School
Enlisted:
Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:
Basra Memorial, Iraq, panel 17.
Link to Hyde:
Born in Hyde
Enlisted in January 1915 underage into the Royal Field Artilliery, when he claimed to be 19 years old, he was actually 16. He was caught out in March 1915.
In the 1921 Cenotaph Unveiling Booklet he is listed as died in 1914.