Remembered today, with Gratitude.

Private 637062 Joseph Tuck 21^st (Eastern Ontario) Battalion, Canadian Infantry.

Joseph the second to eldest of 10 children was born at 1, Blackhorse Square, Ipswich in Suffolk on 16^th March 1876. Joseph’s parents were Emily and Joseph Tuck a Gaslight lighter at the local Gas works.

On leaving school Joseph joined 2^nd Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment serving in India for 16 years, the Battalion returned to England in 1908 and on leaving the army he married his sweetheart Mabel Agnes Pettitt at Bury St. Edmunds in 1909. Joseph and Mabel made the decision to emigrate to Canada and when Joseph enlisted on 15^th April 1916 they were living in Bloomfield, Ontario.

On the night of 3^rd November 1917, 21^st Battalion moved into the area of Potijze, East of Ypres relieving 72^nd Battalion in the front line, South West of Passchendaele in the left section of the 4^th Divisional front.

At 4.45am the enemy launched a barrage on the Battalions front and at 5.10am “Storm Troops” made an attack on the right company front, the leading wave of which forced the defenders to withdraw 50 yards, the men quickly reorganised and counter attacked and the line was re-established. At 5.40am the enemy attacked again but was beaten back by Lewis Gun and rifle fire.

21^st Battalion’s casualties: - 3 Officers killed and 2 wounded, 41 Other Ranks killed and 89 wounded.

Joseph aged 41 was one of those wounded, he died of his wounds 4 days later on 7^th November 1917 and is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.



Private 477282 William John Tuck, 142nd Field Ambulance, 3^rd Division, Royal Army Medical Corp.

William was born in 1888 at 37, Nesbit Street, Hackney, London, the only child of Elizabeth and William Henry Tuck a Journeyman Taylor.

7^th November 1918.

The German High command sat down with the Allied Generals in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage at Compiegne, France and began negotiating an armistice.

On that same day William aged 30 died, sadly for him and so very many others the talks came too late. William is buried in St. Sever Extension Cemetery, France.

I’m sorry to say this is all the information I currently have on William.

Joseph and William,
gone but not forgotten.
God bless you both,
mb

Joseph and William Tuck, may you both forever rest in peace.

Thank you.
Stephen

Joseph and William,

You are Not Forgotten.

Stephen, as always, thank you for posting additional information so that we learn more about who you are asking us to remember.

Ian.

As the clock approaches 11am on 11/11 ".......At the going down of the sun and in the morning/we will remember them"

Rest in peace Joseph and William.

Gone but not forgotten

Friartuck, thanks for posting. Do you by any chance know Joseph's company when he was with the 2nd Suffolks? If he was in C Company chances are he'd have known my g granddad!


Kind regards

Steve