Second Lieutenant Thos. Goodwin Tyner

Regiment: Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Panel reference: Pier and Face 16 C.
Date published: 24/11/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 09/09/1916
Age at death: 20
Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Information: Second Lieutenant Thos. Goodwin Tyner, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who died of wounds received in action while in charge of machine guns, was the second son of Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Tyner, Coolabeg House, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow. He was educated at Midleton College, and passed from there into the Munster and Leinster Bank, and was for some time in the Croom Branch, Co. Limerick. Shortly after the outbreak of the war he joined the Cadet Corps of the Leinster Regiment. In July, 1915, he got a commission, and was transferred to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and had been only two months in France when he fell in action, in his 20th year.