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Pte. George Frederick Tysoe
British Army 11th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment
from:Liverpool
(d.4th April 1918)
George Tysoe was posted to France on 19th May 1915. The 11th Battalion were placed under the control of the Australian 43rd Brigade.
On 4th of Apr 1918 all 270 men of the Battalion were involved in digging trenches on Hill 104 to the North East of Villers Bretonneux. During the work of trench digging two other ranks were listed, in the official record ‘as killed’, George Tysoe was one of these men. His body was never found. It must therefore be assumed he was the victim of enemy artillery fire on his position. He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial in France.
George worked at Ogdena’s Tobacco factory in Liverpool before the war, along with his brother Samuel Tysoe who died 3rd of October 1918 at Boulogne. They were both subsequently commemorated on a plaque that was erected at the Liverpool factory after the war (George was annotated as F Tysoe). The factory closed in 2015 and the plaques were sent to the Imperial Tobacco factory in Nottingham. This factory closed in June 2016 and the plaque will either go to the factory HQ in Bristol or to the National Arboretum. The fate of the plaque is still undecided.
