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Stanford Rivers – Wilfred John Tarling [18427]
[18427] Private in the 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment.
He was killed on 24 August 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the
Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France.
He was born in East Ham about 1898, the son of James and Alice Tarling.
In the 1901 Census, he was living with his parents, brother and sister in
East Ham. His father’s occupation was recorded as a dock labourer.
His father was born circa 1869 at Stanford Rivers.
At the time of Wilfred’s death, his father was recorded as living at
1 Toot Hill.
Vis-en-Artois and Haucourt are villages on the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai about 10 kilometres
south-east of Arras. This Memorial bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August
1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois, between the Somme and
Loos, and who have no known grave. They belonged to the forces of Great Britain and Ireland and South Africa
