Tattersall Frederick Pte 4456752

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Personnel Entry

Pte F Tattersall's CWGC headstone.
Pte F Tattersall's CWGC headstone.

Name Tattersall Frederick
Army number 4456752
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born 1909/10.
Age 30 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date, but probably Spring/Summer 1939. Posted ? 9th Bn DLI. Posted ? 12th Bn DLI - probably 1/9/1939. Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France. KILLED in ACTION Category "B" (Black Watch Enlistment Book shows 20/5/42 but this is a manuscript error - should be 20/5/40), Authority Casualty L. B.E.F. France.
Company/Battery C Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not known but probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade Probably 1/9/1939.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not yet known.
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action KILLED in ACTION 20-May-40. Buried Memorial Plot 8, Row G, Grave 5, BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY, Ficheux. No headstone inscription.
Home address Son of Joseph and Emma Tattersall, Gateshead.
Source table 1TS