Please excuse the indulgence of a separate thread but I felt on the 100th anniversary of his death in combat during World War 1 my Great Uncle Samuel Tebby deserved one.
Name: TEBBY, SAMUEL
Initials: S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Bedfordshire Regiment
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 29
Date of Death: 15/11/1914
Service No: 6987
Additional information: Husband of Grace Tebby, of 183, Livingstone Rd., Thornton Heath, Surrey.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 31 and 33.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Also remembering other relatives killed in the two World Wars:
His nephew, my first cousin once removed, Flight Sergeant Ronald John Tebby died 2 June 1945 now in Taukkyan War Cemetery Burma
His cousin Corporal James Tebby died 21 December 1914 named on Le Touret War Memorial
His cousin Corporal George Edward Tebby (younger brother of James) died 8 August 1916 now in Warloy -Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension
Lest We Forget
RIP
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so close to the end of the war .. really sad .. RIP
RIP Sam, Ronnie, James and George along with all the others.
NLA have you seen this site about the Bedfordshires?
http://www.bedfordregiment.org.uk/
My Great Uncle, Private Samuel Tebby, was in the 1st Bedfordshires and died at Ypres on 15 November 1914.
Steve Fuller, the site owner, is pleased to receive any information and he may have more details re your Great Grandfather.
They may have known each other before Sam went to the Front.
Rip, Albert and Samuel I can't imagine how saddened they would be if they were witnessing the wickedness still around over 100 yrs later
Steve Fuller, the Bedfordshire Regiment researcher linked above, sent me this about Sam a few years back:
Samuel was born in Croydon and lived in Thornton Heath when he joined up. Curiously, I have that he enlisted in Dublin though …
The CWGC entry is here - http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1626019 I have that he died of wounds on the Medal Rolls but that he was KIA on another more generalised database. Personally, I’d go with the DOW for what it’s worth as it probably means he was wounded, treated and died the same day. Not having a grave may simply be because his burial was lost in the fighting that rages around Ypres for years afterwards, so his grave may have been lost to shelling or similar as opposed to being missing. Still, that is purely speculation as it stands …
He arrived in France on 12-9-1914, so was away from the main battalion in Ireland at the star of the war. Whether he was in the Reserves or with the Transport in Bedfords, I do not know. In theory, if he was, he should have a 3 or 4 prefixing his service number as just about every man around his number has, meaning they were in the 3rd or 4th Reserve Btns when war broke out and were mobilised to France after a brief spell of intensive re-training.
His arrival then meant he joined the remnants of the Btn who fought at Mons and Le Cateau around Paris. He would have fought in the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne, La Bassee and was finally killed during the First Battle of Ypres.
When they went into the lines around Ypres in October, 1,100 men made the Btn up. Having stood against a massive assault from the vaunted Prussian Guards in the First Ypres, by the end of the battle, less than half of his Btn were left from the survivors of the early battles AND the reinforcements like Samuel who had arrived in September and October.
He would have fallen around Herentage Chateau, just south of the Menin Road. I have a photo of the Memorial section he is on if you do not. Please say so if not & I will gladly email it to you.
I am trying to fit a trip to the area with Clive but it's been tricky with my eldests school calendar and my work schedule, we should definitely do a cl tour
Thinking too of @nth london addick and his great grandad Albert, whom served in the same regiment as my Great Uncle Private Samuel Tebby, as he is unable to post himself just now.
Died 102 years ago today.
Died 103 years ago today.
Also remembering James, George and Ronnie
remembering them all this weekend was very emotional
i must be getting old
Also remembering James Tebby died 21 December 1914, George Tebby died 8 August 2016 and Ronnie Tebby died 2 June 1945.
Died 106 years ago today.
Also remembering James Tebby died 21 December 1914, George Tebby died 8 August 2016 and Ronnie Tebby died 2 June 1945.
Died 107 years ago today.
Also remembering James Tebby died 21 December 1914, George Tebby died 8 August 2016 and Ronnie Tebby died 2 June 1945.
The only thing he ever said to me about war was that I should never be so stupid as to allow myself to be used in such a futile way.
I often think that after all that generations sacrifices what a balls up we have made of the world
Died 15 November 1914 Ypres. Might not be able to post tomorrow hence posting now.
Also remembering James Tebby died 21 December 1914, George Tebby died 8 August 1916 and Ronnie Tebby died 2 June 1945.
Died 15 November 1914 Ypres.
Also remembering James Tebby died 21 December 1914, George Tebby died 8 August 1916 and Ronnie Tebby died 2 June 1945
Died 15 November 1914 Ypres. 110 years ago today.
Also remembering James Tebby died 21 December 1914, George Tebby died 8 August 1916 and Ronnie Tebby died 2 June 1945.
No direct descendants left for any of them and only a very few indirect some of whom will be unaware of the four of them and their tragic loss in wars probably. So not many of us left to remember them. Sam was my grandmother's older brother, James and George two of her cousins and Ronnie her nephew.