Major Wilfred Norman Tempest

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Wilfrid Norman Tempest

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Ackworth, Yorkshire, England UK
Death: 1916 (26-27)
Somme, Picardie, France (Killed in Action WW1)
Place of Burial: Somme, Picardie, France
Immediate Family:

Son of Wilfrid Francis Tempest, of Ackworth Grange and Florence Helen Tempest
Brother of Major Wulstan Joseph Tempest, DSO; Audrey Clare Tempest; Monica Helen Tempest; Captain Edmund Roger Tempest, MC, DFC and Francis Basil Tempest
Half brother of Francis Roger Tempest; Maude Mary Tempest; Agnes Mary Tempest; Wilfrid Joseph Tempest; Maude Mary Tempest and 5 others

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About Major Wilfred Norman Tempest

Wilfrid Norman Tempest (627), born at Ack­worth Grange 8 June, 1889. Godparents, Sir Charles H. Tempest Bt and Mrs George Draffyn. Entered Stonyhurst College 30 September 1900. Joined Natal mounted police etc. Gazetted 2 Lieutenant K.O.Y.L.I. (old 105th) 22 May 1912; Lieutenant, September '14; Captain October 15 and Major August '16; wounded May '15 and killed while leading his men (he in command of his Battallion), in the battle of the Somme near . . . 25 September 1916; buried there. He was in the Reserve Battallion K.O.Y.L.I. from October 1908 (Inf. his father & Press).


TEMPEST, WILFRED NORMAN

Rank: Major
Date of Death: 26/09/1916
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 2nd Bn. attd. 9th Bn.
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 11 C and 12 A.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Wilfrid Francis and Florence Helen Tempest, of Ackworth Grange, Pontefract, Yorks
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Major Wilfred Norman Tempest's Timeline

1889
June 8, 1889
Ackworth, Yorkshire, England UK
1916
1916
Age 26
Somme, Picardie, France
1916
Age 26
Somme, Picardie, France