1918-2008: Ninety Years of Remembrance

Soldier Record

Oswald Tilley

Contributed by: Cherrill Theobald, on 2008-11-08

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Rank
First NameOswald
SurnameTilley
Year of Birth1896
Year of Death1915
RegimentLondon Regiment
Place of Wartime ResidenceHackney, London, Greater London

Oswald's Story

This was my great uncle and I never knew him but I was the first relative to visit his grave in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery in 1999. Oswald sustained injuries somewhere around the Gravenstaff ridge and died of his wounds in a Boulogne hospital on 30th April 1915 aged only 19.

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