Harry Frank Tuffin

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Harry Frank Tuffin was born in 1895 in Sutton Waldron, Shaftesbury, Dorset, and baptised there on 30th June, 1895. He was the son of Alfred Tuffin, a farm labourer, and Laura Luena Tuffin (née Pope). At the time of the 1911 Census he was single, working as a farm labourer and living at Sutton Waldron, Dorset. He enlisted on 10 Apr 1913 in Dorchester as a Private with the 1st Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment (Service No. 9554). He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 1st October, 1914. He was posted to join the 3rd Battalion and again later to serve with the 5th Battalion. He was demoted to Private on 10th July, 1916 for no known reason. He served in France & Flanders from 16 Aug 1914 and was awarded the Victory and British War Medals as well as the 1914/15 Star. He was presumed killed in action on 26th September 1918 and his name appears on the Thiepval Memorial in France (Pier and Face 7 B). He is also remembered on the Sutton Waldron section of the War Memorial at Iwerne Minster, Dorset. His mother was in receipt of a dependent's pension. Harry's brother George (b.1893) also served with the Dorsetshire Regiment during the First World War and was severely wounded.