Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

I am confused by a soldier who died in WW1 serving in the King's Regiment after winning a Military Medal. The Town Hall Roll of Honour shows him as "Tweedle, T.W." His medal index card is badly written and could be Tweedale, or Tweedole. The War Graves Commission have him as Tweedale, and give his next of kin as:
"Mrs. Ann Tweedle, of I, St. Mary's Grove, Walton, Liverpool".
I have looked in the 1911 census without finding her or him.
The London Gazette entry for the award of his MM, and details of a sale of his MM also show TweedOle.

Can anyone please help with a look-up in a directory or other source for this name and/or address? There is also the chance of a gravestone inscription, as he was buried at Kirkdale Cemetery, but I think that can wait for now.

Daggers
edited to update info.

Hi Daggers,

This one looks good, certainly by looking at the address.

In 1911

Thomas W TWEEDLE born c 1898 L.pool
Address: 1 St Mary's Grove Walton L.pool

Cannot find birth ref yet.

Mother listed as Annie.
Annie is listed as Ann 1901 census.


Gray

Hi Daggers

They are still at St marys Grove Walton in 1911 Under Thomas W Tweedle when was he killed?

Hi Daggers

Think this is his birth:

Thomas William Tweedle Dec Qtr 1897 West Derby 8b p.442

Marchbird

Thanks all round, you have beaten me hollow!
The soldier died on 21 Oct 1918 so soon before the end of the war - and was buried at Liverpool (Kirkdale) Cemetery. I expect he died of wounds, or possibly from the flu epidemic. His MM was awarded almost exactly a year before - no citation in the Gazette, but I shall have a peep in the papers when I get into the RO.
Strange about the spelling!
D

Hi Daggers
1911 Directory which was mostly recorded in 1910
has at number 1 St Mary's Lane Walton
Joseph Radford chief cook.
Sorry not to be of help.

Tina

Thanks, Tina, for your long-range effort!
I am puzzled why the army seems to have added 'O' to the civilian 'Tweed..le'.
Perhaps we shall never know, as so often...
D