{"id":4331,"date":"2023-07-28T13:12:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T12:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2023-07-28T13:14:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T12:14:07","slug":"tanner-r-e-captain-1st-kings-liverpool-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/07\/28\/tanner-r-e-captain-1st-kings-liverpool-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanner R E Captain 1st Kings Liverpool Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tanner R E Captain 1st Kings Liverpool Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n

TANNER, RALPH EYRE, Capt., 1st Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt., elder s. of Ralph Tanner, of 2, Little Dean’s Yard, Westminster Abbey, S.W., M.A., Senior Assistant Master at Westminster School, by his wife, Lucy Lawrence Le Grice, dau. of George Lewis Phipps Eyre; b. Regent’s Park, 16 July, 1885; educ. South Kensington Preparatory School; Westminster, and Sandhurst. He was gazetted on 16 Aug. 1905, as 2nd Lieut. to the King’s Liverpool Regt., which had formerly been commanded by his great-uncle, Major-Gen. Edward Tanner, C.B. He was promoted Lieut. 25 Sept. 1908, and Capt. 16 Sept. 1912, and served for a year with the 1st Battn. in India, 1908-9. On the outbreak of war he went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, and was in the retreat from Mons, behaving in the first action in which the regt. was engaged, as his Colonel wrote, “with great coolness under a murderous fire.” On 14 Sept. 1914, during the Battle of the Aisne, while leading his company through thickly wooded country he was seriously wounded by a party of Germans upon whom they came suddenly. Owing to heavy shell fire it was impossible to move from the wood, and during the course of the day another shell. bursting near, killed the two stretcher-bearers and wounded Capt. Tanner again. By the devotion of his men he was carried back some 4 miles to the dressing station, where he was skilfully doctored by Major A. Martin Leake, V.C., who, like Capt. Tanner, was an old Westminster. After seven days he reached Versailles, where he died from his wounds at No. 4 General Hospital, 23 Sept. 1914. He was buried in the Cimiti\u00e8re des Guards with full military honours, a guard of honour being furnished by a detachment of French cavalry and a large number of French officers attending. Col. Bannatyne, who was afterwards himself killed, wrote: “We in the regt. are sustained by the knowledge that Capt. Tanner met his death when leading the van in a magnificent attack on the enemy, who were holding an enormously strong position. The regt. was advance guard to the whole Division. Capt. Tanner and Capt. Feneran, both of whom were wounded, most gallantly sustained the honour of the King’s. Our great sorrow at his loss will consequently be mingled with pride at his most gallant conduct.” Letters from his brother officers and from privates in the regt. testified to the affection in which he was held and how deeply his loss was felt. Capt. Tanner m. at Westminster Abbey, 11 June, 1913, Edith Vere Marjorie, 4th and yst. dau. of John Henry Brodie, then of Chart’s Edge, Westerham, co. Kent, and had one son : Peter Ralph Eyre, b. 13 Sept. 1914.<\/p>\n

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TANNER, RALPH EYRE, Capt., 1st Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt., elder s. of Ralph Tanner, of 2, Little Dean’s Yard, Westminster Abbey, S.W., M.A., Senior Assistant Master at Westminster School, by his wife, Lucy Lawrence Le Grice, dau. of George Lewis Phipps Eyre; b. Regent’s Park, 16 July, 1885; educ. South Kensington Preparatory School; Westminster, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kings-liverpool-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4335,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}