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Rank : Acting Sergeant

Army Number : 9425

Unit : 2nd Bn, 1st Bn

Biography :

Home address given as Cottingham, Leicestershire. Francis Tilley enlisted into 2nd Bn The Leicestershire Regiment at Market Harborough, Leicestershire, a few months before the First World War, and was en route to join the Bn in India when war broke out. He entered France on 12.10.1914, joining 1st Bn. As Lance Corporal he was wounded during operations 15.5.1915, and on another five occasions, the last time at Ypres on about 9.12.1917, which proved fatal as having suffered with multiple shrapnel wounds he was moved by rail to Abbeville Hospital where he Died of Wounds on 14.12.1917, aged 23. He was Mentioned in Despatches (The Green Tiger January 1918) and was awarded the Military Medal (L.G. 13.3.1918, page 3246). He is buried in Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, France, and is commemorated on the Cottingham/Middleton War Memorial.

Read more at: https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/death-of-cottingham-soldier-to-be-commemorated-1-8289995

1901 Census - (105), Corby Road, Cottingham, Northamptonshire
1911 Census - (6), High Street, Cottingham, Northamptonshire

Father: John James Tilley, b. 1854, Cottingham, Northamptonshire , d. 7 Jun 1938, Cottingham, Northamptonshire

Mother:
Clara White, b. 1857, Middleton, Northamptonshire , d. 7 Sep 1935, Cottingham, Northamptonshire

Married 1875

CWGC:

TILLEY, FRANCES OMAR
Rank: Sergeant
Service No: 9425
Date of Death: 14/12/1917
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Leicestershire Regiment 1st Bn.
Awards: MM
Grave Reference: III. F. 16.
Cemetery: ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Additional Information:

Son of France Omar Tilley, of Middleton, Market Harborough.

Date of Birth : 1894

Place of Birth : Cottingham, Northamptonshire

Date of Death : 14.12.1917

Place of Death : Cambrai, France

Civil Occupation : Blast furnace worker

Period of Service : 1917

Conflicts : WW1

Places Served : France and Flanders