Frank Cecil Tyrrell
Rank: Private
Regiment: 26th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers transferred to 9th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
Parents: Mr Frederick & Mrs Annie Tyrrell
Address: Westholme, 20 Laton Road, Hastings
Other Info: An article published in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer on 11th November 1916 reads: “The sad news has reached Hastings of Frank Tyrrell, younger son of Mr and Mrs F. G. Tyrrell, of Laton Road.
Frank was 29 years of age, and joined the Banker’s Battalion about seven months ago. Recently he went to the Front, and was transferred to a battalion of Surrey Rifles. We understand he was killed by a grenade in the trenches and that death was instantaneous.
Young Tyrrell was a gentlemanly, quiet and much liked young fellow, and assisted his father at his business in Queen’s Road”
According to CWGC, Robert died on 2nd November 1916 and is remembered at Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, grave reference I.A.32.
Published: November 1916
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In the 1911 census the family were at 10-roomed 20 Laton Road, Hastings. Father was a tobacconist, age 57, while his wife Annie was 56. They had had six children, three of whom were living with them, including Frank, shop assistant to a tobacconist. There was also a general servant. The entire household had been born in Hastings.