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Regiment: Middlesex Regt.
Died: 25 May 1919 aged 29 in United Kingdom. Died in England after operation.
Cemetery: Highgate Cemetery 75. 27563
Son of J. P. Tatham, 16 Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, N.W. b. 1890.
Upper IV B—Lower Modern I. House Prefect. Ledbury Cap.
Farmer in England; Tea Planter in Ceylon.
Great War 1914-19 (overseas), Private Royal Fusiliers 1914; Lieutenant 14th Middlesex.
'After two years' of farming in England, he went to a tea plantation in Ceylon. At the end of 1914 he came over to England, enlisted in the Empire Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. Early in 1915 he received a commission in the 14th Middlesex, and one year later joined the 11th Middlesex in France. He was invalided home in August 1916, suffering from shell shock. Later he was with the 1st Battalion, with whom he was serving when he was awarded the Military Cross. He was demobilised in March 1919. But the war had left its mark on him, an operation was considered essential, and he died, as the result of it, on May 25th, 1919. Another of those quiet, unassuming boys, who have proved their worth up to the hilt.' (Malvernian, Dec 1919).