The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private B C Tuck


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Private Bertie Convill TUCK, G/18072, 7th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 30th September 1916, age 21.

Born Hengrave, Suffolk, son of Ellen Tuck, Hengrave, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

1899 December, Hengrave, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Ellen Tuck married William Blowers.


1911 Census - Hengrave, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - Jesse Tuck, head, age 68, married, gardener domestic, (crossed through - Gentleman's Service), worker, born Stowlangtoft, Suffolk; Rebecca Tuck, wife, age 69, married 42 years, 7 children, all still alive, born Bandfield, Essex; Bertie Tuck, grandson, age 15, single, grocery shop assistant, grocery trade, born Hengrave, Suffolk.


20th November 1915, Ely, Cambridgeshire, married Ellen Coates Spooner, Ely Road, Littleport, Cambridgeshire / 1 Fern Villas, Littleport, Cambridgeshire. Married .

Home, 7th May 1915 to 26th August 1916; BEF, 27th August 1916 to 30th September 1916.

Enlisted  Ely, Cambridgeshire, age 19 years & 11 months, height 5ft 7½ inches, resided  Tuddenham, near Mildenhall, Suffolk.

7th May 1915, enlisted 2/1 Battalion, Suffolk Yeomanry, Service No.2043; 9th October 1915, Tadworth, non compliance of an order, 7 days confined to Barracks;29th July 1916, posted 3/1 Battalion, Suffolk Yeomanry; 27th August 1916, posted BEF & 1/4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment; 27th August 1916, embarked Folkestone, disembarked Boulogne; 28th August 1916, 15th Infantry Base Depot; 7th September 1916, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th September 1916, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

6th May 1917, date when Separation Allowance of 9/- a week & Allotment of Pay of 3/6 a week will cease.

7th May 1917, pension of 13/9 a week awarded to widow.

2nd June 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Ellen Coates Tuck, 1 Fern Villas, Littleport; Mother, Ellen Blowers, Hengrave, Bury St Edmunds; Brothers (half blood) - Arthur Blowers, age 18, Hengrave, Bury St Edmunds; Jesse Blowers, age 16, Hengrave, Bury St Edmunds; Sisters (half blood) - Evelyn Blowers, age 20, Hengrave, Bury St Edmunds.

1921 June, Ely, Cambridgeshire, Ellen Coates Tuck, married Frank Robert Hannent.

Buried at Connaught Cemetery, III. K. 4., Thiepval, Somme, France.


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