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Capt. John Amherst Tennant
British Army 10th Bn. attd. 1st Bn Border Regiment Bedfordshire Regiment
from:South Kensington, London
(d.22nd Aug 1915)
John Amherst Tennant died of wounds on the 22nd August 1915, aged 26 and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey. He was the son of John and Margaret Croom Tennant of 19 The Boltons, South Kensington, London and was born on the 27th of March 1889. He was educated at Harrow School and London University where he received at Bsc. in Mechanical and Civil Engineering in 1911. Following his graduation he was employed by the Egyptian Government Irrigation Service at Tatah in the delta and later Luxor in upper Egypt.
With the outbreak of war he returned to England and was given a Commission in the Bedfordshire Regiment and was gazetted Captain in February 1915. In June 1915 Captain Tennant was attached to the 1st Border Regiment and was sent with a draft of 80 men to Gallipoli. He participated in the heavy fighting at Gully Ravine on June 28, 1915. Captain Tennant was fatally wounded about 5 pm on 21 August leading Coy. A, 1st Borders, during the final futile assault on Scimitar Hill at Suvla Bay. He was evacuated to the hospital ship HMHS Rewa offshore and died of his wounds the next day. Captain Tenant was buried at sea shortly thereafter.
His brother William was killed in action the preceding May at the battle of Festubert and the family's third son Hugh Vincent died in Spain in 1927 from the effects of gas shell poisoning received in the Great War.
