Education & Career :

M.B. (1908), Physician (1913)

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

No Data has been recorded for the final action, because none has yet been found. If you have any information to offer, please contact the Project Team so we can add.

Detail :

Frederick Ralph Tickle was a Captain in the RAMC, attached to the Rifle Brigade. He spent the last 6 months of the war as a PoW and was released shortly before the armistice. He committed suicide in a hotel in London on 5 November 1918, having been suffering from severe depression. He was married, with 2 daughters and was aged 34. [David Earley]

Probate record shows: TICKLE, Frederick Ralph of 224 Portswood Road, Southampton - Captain R.A.M.C. last seen alive 4 November 1918 and whose dead body was found 5 November 1918 at The Euston Station Hotel, Middlesex. Probate London, 18 June to Lily Tickle, widow. Effects £4298 12s. 4d.

Masonic :

The records of the United Grand Lodge of England for Ralph show that he joined Shirley Lodge No. 1112 on the 3rd February 1913. His mother Lodge was located in St. Helen's, Lancashire L897, but resigned October 1910.

The annotation in the register of Shirley shows "Resd [Resigned] 31st Dec 1919". This is evidently incorrect and perhaps a kind assumption on behalf of the recorder back in 1919.

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley
• Website : Sussex People - Masonic Roll
• Researcher : David Earley