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Surname: TEMPEST
Forename(s): Basil
Place of Birth: Manchester, Lancashire
Service No: ---
Rank: T/2nd Lieutenant
Regiment / Corps / Service: Manchester Regiment
Battalion / Unit: 13th (Service) Battalion
Division: 22nd Division
Age: 24
Date of Death: 1917-04-25
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: E. 1117.
CWGC Cemetery: KARASOULI MILITARY CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
Basil Tempest (born 9 May 1892) was the son of James and Louisa Annie Tempest, née Barnes. James was born at Cononley, Yorkshire and Louisa at Levenshulme, Lancashire.
1901 Manchester, Lancashire Census: 1, Clarendon Road, Whalley Range - Basil Tempest, aged 8 years, born Manchester, son of James and Louisa A. Tempest.
1911 Manchester, Lancashire Census: 1, Clarendon Road, Whalley Range - Basil Tempest, aged 18 years, born Manchester, son of James and Louisa Annie Tempest.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: 2/Lt Basil Tempest, Manchester Regiment.
Basil is commemorated on William Hulme’s Grammar School War Memorial, Whalley Range and Manchester University War Memorial.
Photograph © IWM (HU 118938).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
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T/2nd Lieutenant Basil TEMPEST
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Manchester Regiment
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 22nd Division
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T/2nd Lieutenant Basil Tempest
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William Hulme’s Grammar School War Memorial, Whalley Range
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25 May 1917
TEMPEST – April 25th 1917, died of wounds received in action, Second-Lieutenant Basil Tempest, Manchester Regiment, nephew of Mr. Moses Tempest, Spring Terrace, Ilkley, and formerly of Keighley Road, Skipton.
25 May 1917
CONONLEY – SECOND LIEUTENANT B. TEMPEST DIES FROM WOUNDS
Sec.-Lt. Basil Tempest, Manchester Regiment, has died of wounds received in action on April 25th. He was the son of Dr. and Mrs. Tempest, Whalley Range, Manchester, and nephew of Mr. A. Tempest, The Grove, Ilkley, and Mr. Tempest, Springs Terrace, Ilkley (formerly a watchmaker in Keighley Road, Skipton), and a grandson of the late James Tempest of Aireview, Cononley. Before the war he was a student apprentice for four years at Messrs. Mather and Platts Ltd. In 1914 he gained a Manchester University scholarship, and on the outbreak of war joined the University O.T.C. He was gazetted Second Lieutenant in the following November and served in France and Macedonia.
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25 May 1917
CONONLEY – SECOND-LIEUTENANT B. TEMPEST’S DEATH FROM WOUNDS
Second-Lieutenant Basil Tempest, Manchester Regiment, has died of wounds received in action on April 25th. He was the son of Dr. and Mrs. Tempest, Whalley Range, Manchester, and nephew of Mr. A. Tempest, The Grove, Ilkley, and Mr. M. Tempest, Springs Terrace, Ilkley (watchmaker, late of Keighley Road, Skipton), and grandson of the late Mr. James Tempest, of Aireview, Cononley. Before the war he was a student apprentice for four years at Messrs. Mather and Platts’ Limited. In 1914 he gained a Manchester University scholarship, and on the outbreak of war joined the University O.T.C. He was gazetted second-lieutenant in the following November, and served in France and Macedonia.
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