TATNELL, Phillip Sidney
| Service Number: | 1223 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 11th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Bethnal Green, London, England, October 1893 |
| Home Town: | Rockhampton, Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 3 August 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Bus House Cemetery Row G, Grave No. 1 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1223, 11th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 4 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 1223, 11th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Mashobra embarkation_ship_number: A47 public_note: '' | |
| 4 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 1223, 11th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Mashobra, Sydney | |
| 1 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 11th Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Phillip Tatnell left London at some stage and came out to Australia by himself prior to the war. He was working and living at Rockhampton, Queensland at the time he enlisted.
He was killed in Belgium when a shell struck a dugout, in which he and four other men of the 11th Field Artillery were sheltering. Tatnell and four others were killed by the shell, with one man surviving wounded. All four were buried side by side in the Bus House Cemetery in Belgium.
Phillip’s parents were Robert Hammond and Clara Ada Tatnell of East Ham, London, England. They lost two other sons during the war, fighting with the British forces.
Y/1049 Rifleman Cecil Tatnell 4th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps died 8 May 1915, age 19.
S/849 Lance Corporal Robert Tatnell 12th Battalion Rifle Brigade killed in action, Belgium, 20 September 1917, age 25.
Phillip Tatnell and Robert Tatnell, though fighting with different armies, died only 6 weeks apart, and are buried within 15 kilometres of each other in Belgium.
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