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fact a George Tully, who was born about 1897 and signed
up in Belfast, died in France on 25th August 1918. He was
Rifleman 3494 of the 15th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles. His death
appears in the list of Irish casualties but there is no possible
Eugene or George Tully in the list of UK soldiers who died in the
Great War 1914 – 1918. The dates of death don’t coincide but it
does appear that some monumental error was made. Research
in later copies of the Stamford and Rutland News might reveal
the truth.
WALKER Frank
Sergeant then Sergeant Major 1402411 21st Company,
Royal Garrison Artillery
Born in 1890, Frank was the third son of John Thomas and
Maud Mary Walker, butchers, of Park Street, Kings Cliffe.
Frank signed up in the Royal Artillery, Regular Army, on 2nd
May 1905 at Stamford, aged 15, by lying about his age and
claiming that he was born in 1884.
The family rumour is that his mother, on finding where he was,
dragged him home. However, when he ran away again, she told
him to get on with it!
He worked hard at his chosen career, taking and passing many
military exams, to help gain promotion.
By 1908 this lad from the Northamptonshire countryside was
serving in Hong Kong.
His next move was to Peking as part of the legation guard.
In the 1911 census he was listed as a gunner, based in China
and Hong Kong, in the Royal Garrison Artillery. His age was
now given as 24 (i.e. born 1887) and his birthplace was listed
as Stamford.
By 1913 he was back in Britain and based at Leith Fort near
Edinburgh. He married in Glasgow in 1914 and was, by now, a
Sergeant at Portkill Battery, Kirkreggan.
For the early years of the war, Frank remained with his regiment
in the UK. The last year of the war finds him in France with the
BEF, where he ends up as Company Sergeant Major.
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up in Belfast, died in France on 25th August 1918. He was
Rifleman 3494 of the 15th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles. His death
appears in the list of Irish casualties but there is no possible
Eugene or George Tully in the list of UK soldiers who died in the
Great War 1914 – 1918. The dates of death don’t coincide but it
does appear that some monumental error was made. Research
in later copies of the Stamford and Rutland News might reveal
the truth.
WALKER Frank
Sergeant then Sergeant Major 1402411 21st Company,
Royal Garrison Artillery
Born in 1890, Frank was the third son of John Thomas and
Maud Mary Walker, butchers, of Park Street, Kings Cliffe.
Frank signed up in the Royal Artillery, Regular Army, on 2nd
May 1905 at Stamford, aged 15, by lying about his age and
claiming that he was born in 1884.
The family rumour is that his mother, on finding where he was,
dragged him home. However, when he ran away again, she told
him to get on with it!
He worked hard at his chosen career, taking and passing many
military exams, to help gain promotion.
By 1908 this lad from the Northamptonshire countryside was
serving in Hong Kong.
His next move was to Peking as part of the legation guard.
In the 1911 census he was listed as a gunner, based in China
and Hong Kong, in the Royal Garrison Artillery. His age was
now given as 24 (i.e. born 1887) and his birthplace was listed
as Stamford.
By 1913 he was back in Britain and based at Leith Fort near
Edinburgh. He married in Glasgow in 1914 and was, by now, a
Sergeant at Portkill Battery, Kirkreggan.
For the early years of the war, Frank remained with his regiment
in the UK. The last year of the war finds him in France with the
BEF, where he ends up as Company Sergeant Major.
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