John Lancelot's Story.
Birkenhead News 09 May 1917Hoylake 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.”