Arthur Henry Tyler was born on 27 February 1896, the fifth of the seven children of Frederick Elihu Tyler (1864-1930) and Mary Elizabeth Tyler née Arscott (1861-1906). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1896 in the Marylebone registration district, London. On 1 April 1896 he was baptised at St Mary's Church, Marylebone, where in the baptismal register his family is shown as living at 2 Norfolk Crescent Mews, Paddington, London and that his father was a coachman.
In the 1901 census he was shown as aged 5 years, still living at 2 Norfolk Crescent Mews, with his parents, his four surviving siblings: Frederick John Tyler (1886-1970) - a clerk; Frank Tyler (b.1888) - at school; Ellen Annie Tyler (1894-1988) - at school and Albert Edward Tyler (1899-1978), together with a male boarder. His father was still described as a coachman. His two deceased siblings had been: William George Tyler (1891-1892) and Herbert Reginald Tyler (1898-1899).
In the 2nd quarter of 1908 his widowed father married an Edith Steward in the Samford registration district, Suffolk.
In the 1911 census he is described as an electrician's mate living in a seven roomed property at 1 Radnor Mews, Paddington, with his father - shown as a motor driver, three siblings: Frank Tyler - an accountant's clerk; Ellen Annie Tyler - a Post Office clerk and Albert Edward Tyler, together with his step-mother's sister, Florence May Steward, aged 14 years.
In September 1914 he enlisted as a Private in the Grenadier Guards, service number 18837 and entered France on 16 March 1916. He was serving in his regiment's No.3 Company, 1st Battalion, when he was killed in action, aged 19 years, on 29 September 1915 and as he has no known grave he is commemorated on Stone 7.A. on the Loos Memorial, in the Dud Corner Cemetery, 62750 Loos-en-Gohelle, France.
His army effects totalling £9-1s-4d were sent to his father on 17 December 1915 and his £3-10s-0d war gratuity was also sent to his father on 16 July 1919. He was posthumously awarded the 1914-1915 Star, the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal.
He is shown as 'TYLER. A.H. PTE. GDR.GDS.' on the Quebec Chapel war memorial at the Church of The Annunciation, Bryanston Street, London, W1H 7AH. He is also commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website, on the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War website and on the A Street Near You website.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
