Sapper, 164882
Royal Engineers,"A.E." Cable Sect.
Died 23 November 1918
Age 35 years old
Son of Sidney and Emily Tisdall, of 32, Goldhawk Rd., Shepherd's Bush, London; husband of Lillian Maude Tisdall, of 50, Manor Rd., Tottenham, London.
Frederick Tisdall was born and grew up in his parents' furriers and dyers shop at 32 Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush, London. His birth was registered at Fulham in early 1884.
In 1908 he married Lilian Maude Bunclark, a draper's assistant.
By 1911 they were living at 9 Woodside Road, Kingston-Upon-Thames, where Frederick was working for a jewellers, repairing clocks and watches.
The couple had two daughters, Constance Emily, born in 1909, and Betty, born in 1913.
During the Great War, he was a sapper with the cable section of the Royal Engineers. He joined up in 1914, aged 29. On one of his last home leaves his son Edgar was conceived.
Frederick was in Salonika, Greece, when Lilian gave birth to their son in 1916.
He managed to survive the war, but he had contracted a bad case of malaria and he died in an Army Hospital on 23rd November 1918, shortly after the Armistice. He never saw Edgar ("Eddie").
His widow had to move back to her mother's house in Tottenham, go out to work, and bring up her three children as a single parent. She never remarried, and lived to the age of 93, dying in 1976.
Their son Edgar Frederick Tisdall died aged 93, on 11th February 2012 at the Holmwood Residential Home in Bungay, Norfolk, and his ashes were buried in Bungay Cemetery with those of his second wife, "Kate".
Royal Engineers,"A.E." Cable Sect.
Died 23 November 1918
Age 35 years old
Son of Sidney and Emily Tisdall, of 32, Goldhawk Rd., Shepherd's Bush, London; husband of Lillian Maude Tisdall, of 50, Manor Rd., Tottenham, London.
Frederick Tisdall was born and grew up in his parents' furriers and dyers shop at 32 Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush, London. His birth was registered at Fulham in early 1884.
In 1908 he married Lilian Maude Bunclark, a draper's assistant.
By 1911 they were living at 9 Woodside Road, Kingston-Upon-Thames, where Frederick was working for a jewellers, repairing clocks and watches.
The couple had two daughters, Constance Emily, born in 1909, and Betty, born in 1913.
During the Great War, he was a sapper with the cable section of the Royal Engineers. He joined up in 1914, aged 29. On one of his last home leaves his son Edgar was conceived.
Frederick was in Salonika, Greece, when Lilian gave birth to their son in 1916.
He managed to survive the war, but he had contracted a bad case of malaria and he died in an Army Hospital on 23rd November 1918, shortly after the Armistice. He never saw Edgar ("Eddie").
His widow had to move back to her mother's house in Tottenham, go out to work, and bring up her three children as a single parent. She never remarried, and lived to the age of 93, dying in 1976.
Their son Edgar Frederick Tisdall died aged 93, on 11th February 2012 at the Holmwood Residential Home in Bungay, Norfolk, and his ashes were buried in Bungay Cemetery with those of his second wife, "Kate".
Sapper, 164882
Royal Engineers,"A.E." Cable Sect.
Died 23 November 1918
Age 35 years old
Son of Sidney and Emily Tisdall, of 32, Goldhawk Rd., Shepherd's Bush, London; husband of Lillian Maude Tisdall, of 50, Manor Rd., Tottenham, London.
Frederick Tisdall was born and grew up in his parents' furriers and dyers shop at 32 Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush, London. His birth was registered at Fulham in early 1884.
In 1908 he married Lilian Maude Bunclark, a draper's assistant.
By 1911 they were living at 9 Woodside Road, Kingston-Upon-Thames, where Frederick was working for a jewellers, repairing clocks and watches.
The couple had two daughters, Constance Emily, born in 1909, and Betty, born in 1913.
During the Great War, he was a sapper with the cable section of the Royal Engineers. He joined up in 1914, aged 29. On one of his last home leaves his son Edgar was conceived.
Frederick was in Salonika, Greece, when Lilian gave birth to their son in 1916.
He managed to survive the war, but he had contracted a bad case of malaria and he died in an Army Hospital on 23rd November 1918, shortly after the Armistice. He never saw Edgar ("Eddie").
His widow had to move back to her mother's house in Tottenham, go out to work, and bring up her three children as a single parent. She never remarried, and lived to the age of 93, dying in 1976.
Their son Edgar Frederick Tisdall died aged 93, on 11th February 2012 at the Holmwood Residential Home in Bungay, Norfolk, and his ashes were buried in Bungay Cemetery with those of his second wife, "Kate".
Royal Engineers,"A.E." Cable Sect.
Died 23 November 1918
Age 35 years old
Son of Sidney and Emily Tisdall, of 32, Goldhawk Rd., Shepherd's Bush, London; husband of Lillian Maude Tisdall, of 50, Manor Rd., Tottenham, London.
Frederick Tisdall was born and grew up in his parents' furriers and dyers shop at 32 Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush, London. His birth was registered at Fulham in early 1884.
In 1908 he married Lilian Maude Bunclark, a draper's assistant.
By 1911 they were living at 9 Woodside Road, Kingston-Upon-Thames, where Frederick was working for a jewellers, repairing clocks and watches.
The couple had two daughters, Constance Emily, born in 1909, and Betty, born in 1913.
During the Great War, he was a sapper with the cable section of the Royal Engineers. He joined up in 1914, aged 29. On one of his last home leaves his son Edgar was conceived.
Frederick was in Salonika, Greece, when Lilian gave birth to their son in 1916.
He managed to survive the war, but he had contracted a bad case of malaria and he died in an Army Hospital on 23rd November 1918, shortly after the Armistice. He never saw Edgar ("Eddie").
His widow had to move back to her mother's house in Tottenham, go out to work, and bring up her three children as a single parent. She never remarried, and lived to the age of 93, dying in 1976.
Their son Edgar Frederick Tisdall died aged 93, on 11th February 2012 at the Holmwood Residential Home in Bungay, Norfolk, and his ashes were buried in Bungay Cemetery with those of his second wife, "Kate".
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