JOHN LANCELOT TILLOTSON (Mentioned in Despatches)

John Lancelot TILLOTSON
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Service Number:N/A.
Regiment: 4th Bn. attd. 6th Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment
Killed In Action Monday 23rd April 1917
Age 19
FromLiverpool.
County Memorial HoylakeWest Kirby
Commemorated\Buried Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery, Wancourt
CountryFrance

John Lancelot's Story.

Birkenhead News  09 May 1917

Hoylake Officer Killed.

“HAD JUST REACHED HIS OBJECTIVE.”

It is with the deepest regret that the death in action of Second-Lieut. John Lancelot Tillotson is announced. He was the younger son of Captain and Mrs. Tillotson, of Hoylake, received his education at Sutton Valence School, Kent, and afterwards trained with the Inns of Court O.T.C. Gaining a commission in the Dorset Regiment he went to France in January, 1917. In a letter the deceased officer’s Colonel writes :- “A very gallant officer. He led his platoon in an attack on the German position between Monchy village and the river Scarpe. He had just reached his objective when he was struck by a machine gun bullet, death being instantaneous.”