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Surname: TENNANT
Forename(s): Bernard
Place of Birth: Manchester, Lancashire
Service No: 43602
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Manchester Regiment
Battalion / Unit: 1/8th (Ardwick) Battalion
Division: 42nd (East Lancashire) Division
Age: ---
Date of Death: 1917-09-09
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 120 to 124.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: HUBBERHOLME, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Bernard Tennant was the son of John Drake and Margaret Tennant, née Tennant. John Drake Tennant was born at Redshaw, Widdale and Margaret at Heaning, Thoralby, Yorkshire. Bernard was the cousin of Driver Richard Dent Tennant (165461) (q.v.).
1901 Manchester, Lancashire Census: 19, North Street - Bernard Tennant, aged 7 years, born Manchester, son of John and Margaret Tennant.
1911 Manchester, Lancashire Census: 73, Alexandra Road, Moss Side - Bernard Tennant, aged 17 years, born Manchester, son of John Drake and Margaret Tennant.
The British Army Service Record for Bernard Tennant exists but may be incomplete.
A short biography of Bernard is included in: ‘Swaledale & Wharfedale Remembered – Aspects of Dales’ life through peace and war’ by Keith Taylor (2006).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
TENNANT, B., aged 23, Manchester Regiment, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Tennant, of Manor House, Buckden, killed in action April 9, 1917.
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Private Bernard TENNANT
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Manchester Regiment
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 42nd (East Lancashire) Division
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St Michael’s Churchyard, Hubberholme
Family gravestone
St Michael’s Churchyard, Hubberholme
Family gravestone - detail of memorial inscription
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05 October 1917
BUCKDEN – KILLED IN ACTION
Information has been received that on September 9th there was killed in action in France Private Bernard Tennant, Manchester Regiment, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Tennant, of the Manor House, Buckden, and of Alexander Road, Manchester, aged 23 years. A memorial service will be held at Hubberholme Church on Sunday next, October 7th, at 2-30 p.m
12 October 1917
TENNANT – September 9th 1917, killed in action on the Western Front, Private Bernard Tennant, Manchester Regiment, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Tennant, Manor House, Buckden, aged 23 years.
12 October 1917
BUCKDEN – THE LATE PTE. BERNARD TENNANT
As already briefly reported in the ‘Herald,’ official information has been received that on September 9th there was killed in action in France Pte. Bernard Tennant, of the Manchester Regiment, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Tennant, of the Manor House, Buckden, and of Alexandra Road, Manchester, whose portrait is given above. He enlisted in November 1914, and was trained at Southport, Colchester and Crowboro’. He went out to France in July 1916, came back in March 1917, and finally returned to France in June 1917.
The following letter was written by his platoon sergeant on September 17th last:–
“Dear Friends, – Just a few lines of sympathy with the sad news, which, I guess, you will already have received. Your son gave his life for his King and Country, and I hope that God will repay you in some other form. He has gone from us, but he is not forgotten. He was well liked by all his comrades. I was only a few yards away from him when he was killed, and you can rest assured that he did not suffer, as he was instantly killed by a shell, and now lies in a soldier’s grave. By the look on his face he had made peace with his God. I write this letter on behalf of myself and my platoon, and we all hope that you will be given strength to overcome your sad trouble. Yours truly, E. TWIGG.”
A memorial service was held on Sunday last in Hubberholme church, the church of his ancestors for many generations back. The minister (the Rev. R. F. R. Anderton) in his sermon spoke of the resolute, brave, bright and cheerful bearing of Pte. Tennant, and of his great love for the works of God in nature, and he bore witness to his honourable, upright and high-principled life. He also pointed out that Mr. Tennant’s two sons were not the first of the Tennant family to tread the paths of military glory. They had followed the noble example of their great-uncle, Sergeant John Tennant, of the Grenadier Guards, who fought for his country in the Crimean War. The minister expressed an earnest hope that Mr. Tennant’s remaining son, serving with the Forces in Salonica, might, in the mercy of God, be brought safe home again.
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