TYSOE Leonard

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

The birth of Leonard Tysoe is registered in the December Quarter 1879 under the Tewkesbury Registration District.

1881 Census:
Mount Pleasant, Tewkesbury
Congreve John Tysoe, head, age 33, Grocer Master
Ellen Tysoe, wife, age 32
Grace E. Tysoe, Daughter, age 3
Leonard Tysoe, son, age 1

1901 Census:
24 Pagoda Avenue, Richmond, Surrey
George Clifton Lunley, head, age 26
Florence M. Lunley, sister, age 28
Frederick J. Caton, boarder, age 22
Leonard Tysoe, boarder, age 21, Civil Engineer, born Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire

1901 Census:
24 Pagoda Avenue, Richmond, Surrey
George Clifton Lunley, head, age 26
Florence M. Lunley, sister, age 28
Frederick J. Caton, boarder, age 22
Leonard Tysoe, boarder, age 21, Civil Engineer, born Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire

The following information has been researched by Geoff Hill:
1911 Census
On the 1911 census Leonard Tysoe, aged 31, municipal surveyor’s assistant for the borough council, was recorded as a visitor at Milton Villa, Montagu Road, Datchet, Berkshire.

The Labour Corps was formed in April 1917 from the various Army Service Corps, Royal Engineers and infantry labour units which had come into existence from the early days of the war to meet the need for unskilled labour in large numbers for handling stores, constructing back lines of defence, making and repairing road, etc. Labour Corps units were often deployed for work within range of the enemy guns, sometimes for lengthy periods. In April 1917, a number of infantry battalions were transferred to the Corps.

The Battle of Arras was a British offensive on the Western Front that took place between the 9th April and the 16th May 1917. There were no other major engagements with the enemy in the Arras area during May 1917. It is therefore not certain how, when or where Leonard Tysoe may have been killed.

At the time of his death Leonard’s widow, Hilda, and his widowed mother were living at 38 Droitwich Road, Worcester, where his mother had been living in 1911.

The April 1917 edition of ‘The Municipal Officer’ reported that Mr L. Tysoe, assistant borough surveyor of Hammersmith, had received a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the Army and had been attached to the Durham Light Infantry for duty with the Labour Companies. The Supplement to the London Gazette, 2nd April 1917 reported that his commission as temporary 2nd Lieutenant had taken effect from the 1st March 1917.