Jean Longstaff has submitted the following:-

Born on 5th August 1890 Stuart Tyrie was one of the nine children, 1 girl and eight boys, of William Campbell Tyrie from Dundee and his wife Mabel Ann from Whickham. Father William was a well known building contractor in Gateshead and according to probate records when he died in 1899 he left his wife over £17,000 (a 21st century equivalent of just under £2 million).

It is not known when Stuart left England for New Zealand, but by 1914 he was living in Auckland and working as a clerk, and in December 1914 he enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Waitemata Hotel, Auckland, naming his older brother Thomas in Gateshead as his next of kin and becoming Private 12/1816. Whilst sailing to Europe in August 1915 he was treated for debility on a hospital ship in the Dardanelles and then transferred to the 1st Australian and New Zealand Convalescent Centre at Helouan, Egypt before returning to New Zealand.

In January 1916 Private Tyrie was transferred to “A” Company, 10th Reinforcements in Trentham and once more sailed for Europe, disembarking in Suez on 10th April 1916. Five days later they left Alexandria on board the troopship Ivernia, bound for Marseilles, and at the beginning of June were in Etaples. The beginning of August saw Private Tyrie joining the 1st New Zealand Division on the front line where he was transferred to the 1st New Zealand Machine Gun Corps in August, where on 17th August he was given seven days' punishment for missing parade at Armentieres.

Private Stuart Tyrie was killed in action on the Somme on 26th September 1916 during the attack on Goose Alley and the Grid Trenches during the Battle for Morval.

His brother Colin also died in WW1.

Stuart Tyrie is remembered in Gateshead on G39.004 page 96

In New Zealand he is remembered on their National War Memorial, Wellington and on Auckland Museum’s Online Cenotaph.

Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph
The CWGC entry for Private Tyrie