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Captain Thomas Lanfear TANNER, 4th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, 18th September 1918, aged 28.

Born at Penge, London.

Son of William Burbidge Tanner and Fanny Gertrude Tanner, of 78, Thicket Road., Anerley, London. 

Commemorated at  Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery Extension, II. A. 5., France.

London Gazette 4th May 1917.

War Office, 4th May 1917 - TERRITORIAL FORCE - INFANTRY

Royal West Kent Regiment - 2nd Lieutenant (temporary Captain) T L Tanner to be Captain, with precedence as from 1st June 1916 - 5th May 1917.

OBITUARY

Captain Thomas Lanfear TANNER, 4th Territorial Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born 26th December, 1890.

Brother of Rifleman W.A. Tanner (London Rifle Brigade 12-4-17) and Captain C.P. Tanner (M.G.C. 30-11-17).

He was in the 2nd XV at Dulwich and afterwards became a keen member of the O.A. Football Club. He gained a Classical Scholarship at Hertford College, Oxford, and took a Second Class in Moderations in 1912 and took the same in Greats in 1914.

On outbreak of war, having just completed four years at Oxford, he applied for a commission and in September 1914 was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal West Kent Regiment Territorials, being promoted Lieutenant in the following January and Captain in June, 1916. He served at various stations at home until June, 1917, when he proceeded to France.

In March, 1918, he was invalided home from Armentieres with a poisoned foot but returned to France in the following July.

During the advance on the Cambrai - St. Quentin Front he was killed whilst leading his company on 18th September, 1918.