Edgar Handley Tebbutt
He was employed as a tinplate worker
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Eric Tebbutt was born in 1889 at West Stockwith, the son of the late George Handley a school master and Elizabeth Constance Tebbutt (née Smith) of High Street, Misterton.
His father was the local school teacher he was born in 1847 at Kettering he died in 1901 aged 54 yr his mother Elizabeth Constance Smith was born in 1850 at Ipswich, they were married on 23rd January 1871 at Bromley, Kent
Edgar had ten siblings, Llewelyn 1872, Edith 1874, Hilda 1876, Evelyne 1879, Harold 1881, Millie 1883, Wilfred 1886, Oscar Handley 1887, Eric 1890, and Githa May 1892.
In the 1911 census his widowed mother Elizabeth 67 yrs is living at Albion Terrace, Misterton, she is living with her children, Wilfrid Oliver 25 yrs an iron turner, Edgar Handley 21 yrs a tinplate worker and Githa May 18 yrs of age.
Private Edgar Tebbutt enlisted in Misterton and served with the 7th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. He was killed in action on 2nd March 1916 his name is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial Ypres.
Two brothers from Misterton, Edgar and Eric Tebbutt, sons of a former school teacher in West Stockwith, were killed within five miles of each other (near the town of Ypres/Ieper) in Belgium but a year apart, in 1916 and 1917. A third son Oscar was seriously wounded during a gas attack. (He survived the war and became a cobbler/shoe repairer in Walkeringham).
His elder brother Eric Tubbutt also died while serving in the Great War
Information on Edgar Handley Tebbutt has been provided courtesy of the Misterton and West Stockwith History Group
Edgar Handley Tebbutt
Photo provided courtesy of The War Graves Photographic Project www.twgpp.org
Edgar Handley Tebbutt
Photo shows The Menin Gate memorial , Ypres, Belgium upon which Edgar Handley Tebbutt's name is commemorated, photo courtesy of CWGC