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| Coporal Frank Luther TYLER (G/2170) | |
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B Company, 8th (Service) Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (Pioneers) Date of birth: 23rd September 1885 Date of death: 9th May 1918 Died of wounds aged 32 Buried at Franvillers Communal Cemetery Extension Plot I Row A Grave 17 |
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| Frank Luther Tyler was born at Poynings on the 23rd of September 1885 the third son of Henry Walter Tyler, an agricultural labourer, and Caroline (nee Winter) Tyler of 47 Mill Bay Cottages, Poynings in Sussex. When he left school he worked as a carter on a farm before accepting a post with his older brother, Henry, as a carter and farm worker at Lancing College Farm. They lived as boarders at Lancing College Farm Cottage. He enlisted into the army at Worthing. On the 5th of May 1918 the 8th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment moved by bus from Dreuil to Montigny and then marched to Baizieux. The following day they moved into bivouacs at Australia Camp after which B Company spent the night digging a new communication trench to the front line. The work could not be completed that night due to a raid. On the 7th of May B Company moved to a valley at Bresle where they continued work on the communication trench although they were forced to wear masks for short time due to the enemy shelling the area with gas shells; they completed their work on the 8th of May. B Company spent the morning of the 9th of May 1918 improving their camp before moving forward to Laveville Trench, while the battalion's Headquarters was being established in Laveville village. They came under shelling while they were there which caused casualties of one officer and two other ranks killed with eighteen other ranks wounded. Frank Tyler was among the wounded and he died later that day. He is commemorated on the war memorial at Poynings. |
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