Ralph Tyerman was born in 1898 and lived in Stockton on Tees. He joined the 7th Battalion Rifle Brigade in Middlesborough on 7th July 1915. He was killed in action on 17th October 1917 but there is no grave. He is recorded on the Tyne Cot Memorial. There is a letter which he wrote to his mother in Birkenhead in 1915. He was living with his grandmother in Stockton on Tees before joining up. There is a record of his posthumously receiving the British War Medal in 1921 and also a record of his receiving the Military Medal in the London Gazette of 9th December 1916. There is also a commemorative scroll from the king sent on his death to his mother. || Commemorative scroll Letter Medal letter 2 photographs Card dated Christmas 1916 || || Christmas cards, photographs and letters || Tyerman story

Special Constabulary medal

A Photograph of my Great Great Uncle Arthur August Smith, his wife and their child. || My Great Great Uncle Arthur August Smith, born 1885 in Chelmsford, Essex. I have very little information about Arthur, we believe he was in the Army Service Corps as he is wearing spurs in the photograph but is not in any kind of cavalry uniform. My Grandmother remembers being told by her mother that Arthur served in France and was gassed, he survived the war unlike his younger brother Leonard Mark Smith who was killed in action 28th March 1918 at Arras.