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Spr. Thomas Tooley
British Army 526th Corps Royal Engineers

(d.28th Mar 1918)
Thomas Tooley died aged 22, born in Smethwick in 1895, son of George Henry Tooley of 6 Oldbury Road West Smethwick Birmingham and Sarah Ann Tooley (nee Darby). In the 1911 Census Thomas E Tooley, aged 16, a Labourer in a Brass & Copper works, is recorded as living with his Uncle Edgar Martin & Aunt Lena Martin at 13, Russell Street, Jarrow-on-Tyne. He enlisted in Jarrow and served in France from 18th September 1915.
thomas is buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun. He is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.

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