BORN HULL 1890. SON OF SARAH JANE LAYBOURNE (1869-1933) & ROBERT EWBANK TETHER (1869-1914), OF 7, WEST VIEW, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. WORKED FOR SISSONS, STONEFERRY, HULL. HE WAS 5 FOOT, 5.5 INCHES TALL, 124 LBS WEIGHT.
HE ENLISTED IN THE “HULL COMMERCIALS”, ON 02/09/1914. SERVED WITH THE 10TH EYR, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. HE WAS WOUNDED ON 27/08/1916. RETURNED TO DUTIES, HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/04/1918, AGED 27. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR THREE YEARS AND 224 DAYS.
HE LEFT HIS BRIDE TO BE, FRANCES SAUL, HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, ERNEST TETHER, SISTERS, JESSIE SAUL, NORAH & IVY, TWIN NEPHEWS & BROTHER IN LAW, GEORGE SAUL (1893-1918), (ALSO KILLED IN THE WAR).
HE WAS PICTURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 01/09/1916. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM, ON 08/05/1918.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE STONE PILLARS, OF ST MARY’S CHURCH, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE BERNARD TETHER 10/314. Born in October 1890, Bernard was the eldest of seven children to Robert and Sarah Tether of West View, Hull. A Tin Works Labourer prior to the war, Bernard enlisted in the then fledgling battalion in the early days of September 1914. One of the original Pals, he trained with the battalion in Hornsea, Beverley and Ripon throughout 1915 and sailed for Egypt that December where he helped defend the Suez Canal from the Turks. Arriving in France in March 1916, Bernard was a veteran of the Somme and Oppy Wood, when the early morning mist of 13th April 1918 found him dug into defensive positions close to the Franco-Belgian border. The Germans attacked in the small hours, but were driven back by machine gun fire from the 10th. They attacked again in the afternoon and were again repelled. Somewhere out there Bernard was killed in action. He was buried behind the lines and his body was exhumed after the Armistice. His grave lies in Outtensteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul. He was 27 years old.
