BORN HULL 1892. SCULCOATES. ONLY SON OF JOHN TUTTLE & AMY VIRGINIA RUSHBROOK. HE HAD FOUR SISTERS, DOROTHY, VIOLET, VERA AND EDNA. THE TUTTLE FAMILY LIVED AT 69 RUGBY STREET (1911 CENSUS).
HE WORKED AS A LABOURER. MARRIED IN 1913. HIS WIFE, FLORENCE GERTRUDE BARNES, LIVED AT 24 HADDON STREET, HULL & 7, LIZZIE GROVE, HARROW STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD A YOUNG SON JACK TUTTLE BORN IN 1913.
JOHN TUTTLE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 10TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, ON 1ST JULY 1916, AGED 24. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT FRICORT NEW MILITARY CEMETERY. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, FLORENCE WHO REMARRIED, TO JOSEPH OVINGTON, IN 1919.
First name:
JOHN THOMAS RUSHBROOK
Military Number:
12036
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
01/07/1916
Place died:
Fricourt New Military Cemetery, Somme, France
Age:
24
