G/89536 Pte Walter Tupling, 20th Bn, Middlesex Regt

G/89536 Private Walter Tupling of the 20th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, was killed in action on the 8th February 1918. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records his name as W Tupling and gives his date of death (incorrectly) as the 6th February 1918. It adds the additional information that he was the son of Mr F Tupling of 48 Westwood Street, Peterborough.

Soldiers Died... notes that Walter, a driller by trade, was born in Peterborough and enlisted at Northampton although he was living at Peterborough at the time. He was called up on the 26th February 1917 aged 18 years and three months. Initially posted to the 28th Training Reserve Battalion and then the 30th TRB, he joined the 5th (Reserve Battalion) Middlesex Regiment on the 13th December 1917 and was subsequently posted to the 20th Battalion on the 18th January 1918. He embarked for France the same day and joined his battalion in the Field, two days later. According to surviving service papers in WO 363 he was killed in action on the 8th February and not the 6th as stated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Walter Tupling is buried in Mory Abbey Military Cemetery in Mory, France.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (WO 363)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War