Felix Tarr

In memoriam

TROOPER Felix Tarr (1889-1915) He was born at Exebridge, Somerset, in 1889 and was the son of Mrs Bessie Tarr, of Huckley Head Cottage, Bampton, Devon (d.1946). Felix enlisted in the 1st/1st West Somerset Yeomanry (Corps of Hussars) as Trooper 955. The Yeomanry were ordered in Gallipoli, Turkey, in 1915 to fight the Ottoman Turks. They arrived Mudros on the Greek Island of Lemnos on the 1st of October 1915, before being transferred onto the SS Osmanieh for onward travel to Suvla Bay in Gallipoli, arriving on the 9th of October 1915. They bivouacked at 'Oxford Street' at Karakol Dagh, attached to the 11th (Northern) Division, and whilst digging trenches received their first casualties. Felix was wounded in action and evacuated to the Australian Military Hospital back at Mudros on the Island of Lemnos, where he 'died of wounds' on October the 16th 1915, age 26 years. He was buried at the East Mudros Military Cemetery, Lemnos, Greece. Plot ​III. B. 47. He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour at St Nicholas Church, Brushford, West Somerset. SOURCE: https://wsaw.weebly.com/brushford.html

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