Son of William and Elizabeth Saul, born in Keswick and
attended Brigham School. Orphaned and adopted by cousin Lavinia
and Dunglinson Dykes Tyson. Trained as a tailor. Married Mary
Jane Jenkinson on 18 May 1916 at Crosthwaite Church.
Enlisted in the Duke of Lancashire Yeomanry,
Manchester, on 6 October 1915, transferred to the 4th South
Lancashire Regiment on 27 December 1916, posted to the 5th
Battalion on 16 January 1917 and the 6th Battalion on 11
September 1917, served in France and Mesopotamia, was
hospitalised in Bombay on 10 September 1918, and discharged as no
longer fit for war service on 11 February 1919.
Andrew died at the Victoria
Hospital, Blackpool, on 2 November 1919, aged 31, leaving his
wife with a 2 year old daughter and 10 day old twin boys.
The family returned to
Portinscale and Keswick to live.