SOLDIER DETAILS:
Tuxworth,
Albert Arthur
Trooper Royal Canadian Dragoons 959
August 8, 1918
Crouy
British Cemetery, France
Worked in Milton area.
Maple
Leaf Legacy Project
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Victoria Park Cenotaph
R. Laughton
Crouy British Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves
Virtual War Memorial
Thomas L. Skelding
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Trooper Tuxworth
is remembered on the Victoria Park Cenotaph in Milton
ON.
Trooper
Tuxworth
is buried in
Crouy
British Cemetery, 16 km NW of Amiens. It was the burial
place for the No. 47 Casualty Clearing Station.
Grave
V. B. 2.
(clearly visible in the cemetery map)
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SOLDIER SUMMARY:
| Trooper Tuxworth was linked to Milton as a
teamster who worked for Duncan Reed. He also served under
Captain Bastedo. Having served with the 5th
Lincolns Regiment, he attested to the Royal Canadian Dragoons on
September 20, 1914.
Trooper Tuxworth died of shrapnel or gun shot wounds (both
are reported) to his abdomen at
No. 47 Casualty Clearing Station on August 8, 1918, during the
push from Amiens to Mons. Nicholson Map 11 shows the Royal
Canadian Dragoons (3rd Cavalry Division, 7th Cavalry Brigade)
moving on Beaucourt-en-Santerre along the Amiens-Roye Road. The
Germans had been caught completely by surprise and were over
run. Page 404 of Nicholson reports on the movement of the
Dragoons, accompanied by two companies of Whippet tanks (32 in
all). The Germans wrote of August 8th being a black day in
German history of this war.
The war diary reports for August
8th am and August
8th pm as to heavy casualties in the regiment, with 9
killed, 47 wounded and 6 missing. There were also 125 horse
casualties. August 8, 1918 was the first day of what is reported
as "Canada's Hundred Days". |
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The soldier pages contain information
that is available from a number of resources. The following hyperlinks
are active where the information is available:
The summary of the service is taken from
the soldier's service records, if they were available from Library and
Archives Canada. A complete copy of the service record is
available in electronic and paper format in the Alex
Cooke Memorial Archives at the Milton Historical Society.
Using that summary, combined with the key references, a summary of the
events leading up to the death of the soldier has been prepared.
The research information available is as noted on the Canadian
Expeditionary Force Study Group web site Matrix
Project as well as in the Library and Archives Canada On-Line
War Diaries.
A summary of all the soldiers is
contained on the Web Blog "Great
War Soldiers of Milton, Ontario CANADA". Please also
be sure to purchase your own copy of "Milton
Remembers World War I - The Men and Women We Never Knew" by
John Challinor II and Jim Dills, edited by Ken Lamb. |
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