Tiddy, CJ
(1897 - 1918)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
18th June 1897
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1911 - 1914
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
14 Church Road, Forest Hill, SE23
REGIMENT
1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
11th August 1918
AGE AT DEATH:
21
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Roye
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Vis-En-Artois Memorial. Panel 7
2nd Lieutenant Claude Julian Tiddy
Born on June 18th 1897 Claude was the fifth of seven children of Cornish-born draper and outfitter Charles Tiddy, and his wife, Bertha, originally from South Africa. He started at Dulwich in September 1911, following in the footsteps of his three older brothers – his younger brother, Herbert, would also go on to attend the College – and was a pupil for just over three years. He left at the end of 1914, whilst a member of the Classical Remove.
After Dulwich Claude volunteered as a member of the Inns of Court O.T.C., before taking up a place at Sandhurst. He passed out in December 1917 in order to take up a commission in the Dorsetshires and went over to France for the first time with his new unit the following January. He was wounded that April whilst on a reconnaissance mission near Arras, spending several months in hospital in Rouen as a result, before rejoining his unit in July. On August 11th he was killed by a sniper near Roye, on the Somme, less than two months after his twenty-first birthday.
