Surname:	Tytler
Forename(s):	William Boyd
Rank:	Lieutenant
Service number:
Regiment:	Northumberland Fusiliers 22nd (Tyneside Scottish) Bn.
Date of death:	1 July 1916 Aged 22
Place of death:	Somme
Buried Commemorated	Unknown Thiepval Memorial to the Missing

Background

William was educated at Kingussie School and finished training as a teacher at Edinburgh University and had just received an appointment on the staff at Dornoch Academy when war broke out.

War Record

William had been a private in the 4th Royal Scots (Territorials) and joined the Tyneside Scottish Bn. a “Pals” Battalion formed in Newcastle, November 1914. He travelled to France in January 1916.

At the end of the first day of the Somme the 22nd Battalion was reported to have lost 648 men, including William, out of a strength of around 1,100. William’s body was not recovered and he is remembered on the Theipval Memorial to the missing of the Somme along side 72,171 others.

William is also commemorated on the Newtonmore War Memorial and the Kingussie and Insh Memorial in Kingussie Parish Church.

His brother James Boyd Tytler also fell 16 Septemebr 1916 ansd is buried at Dartmoor Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt, France.