Tindall, Walter Henry

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF WILLIAM & HANNAH ELLIS TINDALL (1855-1930), OF 10, BISHOP LANE, HULL. ONE OF SIX SONS AND TWO MARRIED SISTERS. BEFORE THE WAR, HE WORKED AS A WAREHOUSE LABOURER.

HE ENLISTED IN HULL, FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 253, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS LANCE CORPORAL, 33461, 9TH YORKSHIRE HUSSARS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 20/9/1917, AGED 25. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST MARY’S CHURCH MEMORIAL, LOWGATE. WITH HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, 17781, CHRISTOPHER BELL TINDALL, 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WHO WAS KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 14/07/1916, AGED 22.

ANOTHER BROTHER, JOHN TINDALL, 27TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, WAS DISCHARGED WOUNDED, ON 31/07/1917 AND DIED IN 1924, AGED 38.

Name Walter Henry Tindall
Birth Place Hull, 1892. Son of Mrs. Hannah Ellis Tindall of 30, Bishop Lane, Lowgate, Hull, and the late William Tindall.
Death Date 20 Sep 1917
Death Place Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Enlistment Place Hull
Rank Lance Corporal
Regiment Yorkshire Hussars (Alexandra, Princes of Wales’ Own)
Battalion 9th Battalion
Regimental Number 33461
Type of Casualty Killed in action
Theatre of War Western European Theatre
Comments Formerly 253, East Yorks Regt.

First name:
WALTER HENRY
Military Number:
33461
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
20/09/1917
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
25
10, BISHOP LANE, LOWGATE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK