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Pte. James Tolmie
British Army 5th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:43, Dean Rd., Cricklewood, London.
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Pte. H. Toman
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
H Toman was discharged in 1917 sick
Rflmn. H. Toman
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.1st July 1916)
Rifleman Toman is buried in Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval, Grave III.D.5.
Sgt. Patrick Toman
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:53 Bridge Street, Hilden, Lisburn, N. Ireland
My Grandfather Partick Toman joined the army reserves (5th battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles) in 1906 when he was 18 years old. He was a labourer in the Barbour Linen Mill in Hilden.
Upon the outbreak of war in 1914 he was called up to regular service and the battalion went to Belfast to act as a training unit. My grandad was an instructor but on the 25th of December 1914 he was sent to the front with the 2nd battalion of the RIR because of the high losses suffered they needed more experienced men. He left behind his wife Catherine (Nee McCormick) and his three sons Richard, Patrick and John. John had been born in September of 1914 and his other sons were two and four years old.
He fought in 15 major battles while in France. He was wounded by shell fragments in 1916 during the Somme offensive. This happened on the 14th of July 1916 after his battalion had been in action at Ovilliers. He returned to his unit 30th of November 1916 and took part in the battle of Messines Ridge, the 1917 campaigns in Flanders, the tank battle at Cambrai, and the German Spring offensives of March 1918.
His battalion (the 2nd Royal Irish Rifles) was wiped out almost to the last man on the 24th of March 1918 as it fought desperate rear guard actions to allow the remnants of the 36th Ulster division to escape the German avalanche. Survivors continued to fight with various units until the end of March when the battalion was moved to reserve and the task of rebuilding it began.
Pat Toman was part of the re-built battalion until the 2nd of June 1918 when he was wounded while on a night patrol in the Ypres area. During this patrol Major Herbert Musgrave from Corps Intelligence was killed. My Grandad was shot in the thigh by a machine gun bullet but made it back to friendly lines alive. It was thought he might have to lose the leg but it was saved.
My granddad made a life after the war but suffered PTSD which he dealt with by prayer, solitude, and by swearing off alcohol. He died in 1952 (15 years before I was born) but I grew up on legends and tales about him all my life and we all love him several generations on. We respect the effort he made to give us the peace and freedom we enjoy today.
I was able to visit the battle fields in Belgium, where he fought for so long, in 2007. I was able to walk along the very road where he was wounded for the last time in 1918 and to visit the grave of his patrol mate Herbert Musgrave.
Pte. Arthur Tomes
British Army Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Wootton Wawen
Arthur Tomes, my Grandfather, served with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was in Rouen, France in October 1917and 1918 carrying his National Bible of Society of Scotland. He came home in 1920, having been injured, to Wootton Waven Auxiliary Hospital at Wootton Hall.
Pte. Ernest Daniel Tomkins
British Army 2/6th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Brislington, Bristol
(d.29th Jan 1918)
Ernest Tompkins served with the Somerset Light Infantry, he transferred to the 2/6th Warwicks and was killed on the 29th of January 1918. He is buried in Le Cateau Cemetery.
Pte. Leonard Tomkins
British Army 5th Battalion South Wales Borderers
from:Elton
(d.7th June 1918)
Pte. Arthur Tomkinson
British Army 7th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
(d.16th Nov 1915)
Rflmn. Albert Charles Tomlinson
British Army 12th (Service) Battalion Hampshire Regiment
from:Birmingham
Albert Tomlinson joined the 12th Btn. Hampshire Regiment in 1914. He was admitted to hospital on 21st of February 1917 and transferred to sick convoy the next day with suspected Malaria. Number/Designation of ward: C3, A Company.
Painter 2nd Charles Alfredo Tomlinson
Royal Navy HMS Begonia
from:Wolstanton, Staffordshire
(d.6th October 1917)
Capt. Clifford Gibaud Tomlinson MiD.
British Army Sherwood Foresters
from:Biskra, Westfield Road, Leicester
I have recently been presented with an image of what appears to be my cousin, Clifford Tomlinson in uniform in 1915. He was born 30th of January 1891 in Barton Regis, Bristol, Gloucestershire, to Thomas Benjamin and Susie Tomlinson (nee Gibaud). The leather trade was on both of his parents side of the family.
In an article printed in the London Gazette dated September 1915, Private Clifford Tomlinson, from Inns of Court Officers Training Corps was to become Second Lieutenant from 30th of January 1915 - 30th of January 1917. He served in France in the Sherwood Foresters Regiment. He became Captain and was mentioned in Despatches.
Following WW1, in 1919, he was asked by his uncle Mr Frank Gibaud of Bagshaw & Gibaud, to join the firm in Port Elizabeth, South Africa which he did, becoming Company Director and remaining with them for 41 years. He passed away in June 1975 in Port Elizabeth, SA.
L/Cpl. Fredrick Anderson Tomlinson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Scopwick, Lincolnshire
(d.27th Aug 1918)
Fredrick Tomlinson was my Great Great Uncle and I know he is buried in the Caestre Cementary in Nord France.
L/Cpl. Harold Tomlinson
British Army 1st Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Warrington
(d.23rd Oct 1916)
Harold Tomlinson was a pawnbroker's apprentice before he signed up. He is one of the missing.
Pte. John Henry Tomlinson
British Army 7th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Aston-on-Trent
(d.15th Aug 1918)
At the age of 27, John Tomlinson died from shrapnel wounds to his right shoulder.
John Henry Tomlinson
British Army 7th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Aston-on-Trent, Derbyshire
(d.15th Aug 1918)
Cpl Saddler. V, Tomlinson
British Army A Bty. 248th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:London
(d.29th May 1918)
Cpl. Walter Tomlinson
British Army 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Ramsbottom
(d.10th Apr 1918)
Walter Tomlinson was my grandparent's first child, my father's oldest brother. He was employed in the textile industry in Lancashire and joined the 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. Although his name appears on a gravestone in Shuttleworth church yard, Walter never returned and there is a memorial to him in the Cemetery at Croix du Bac near Lille. My daughter and I visited the cemetery and were amazed to find that we were there on the 10th April 2008. That was exactly 90 years to the day since Uncle Walter was killed. I think we were the first people from the family to visit the cemetery and no one had ever mentioned it to me in the family. We traced him through the War Graves web site and were both pleased that we had been able to visit the memorial.
Pte. William Tomlinson
British Army 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
(d.19th Aug 1918)
William Tomlinson died aged 25, he was born in Jarrow in 1893, son of Charles Tomlinson of 16 Berkley Street Jarrow and the late Amy Elizabeth Tomlinson (nee Leadbeater). In the 1911 Census William Tomlinson, age 17, a Copper works Labourer is listed as living with his Grandfather, Charles Tomlinson at 16, Berkley Street, Jarrow. He lived and enlisted in Jarrow and served in the East Yorks Regiment, proceeding to France on the 9th of |Sepetmeber 1915.
William is buried in Gauche Wood Cemetery. Villers-Guislain and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Rflmn. William "Tommo" Tomlinson
British Army 7th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Newton, Derbyshire
(d.23rd April 1917)
Pte. Edgar Frederick Tompkins
British Army 11th (Cambridge) Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
Fred Tompkins was born in Northampton in 1883 and moved with his parents George and Emily and his younger sister Harriet Emily to the village of Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, in around 1890. The 1901 census shows him living with his parents and working as a farm labourer. He married in 1905, Sarah Jane Norman from Swavesey; the couple had no known children and lived apart within a few years of their marriage sometime before the 1911 census, when Fred was again living with his parents and working as a farm labourer.
Fred joined the 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment as a volunteer on 5th October 1914. He served in the battalion until 5th February 1917, when he was discharged as medically unfit for service Wounds P. 392 (xvi) King's Regulation 1912. He was awarded the Victory Medal and Silver War Badge (No: 20272). No other details of his military service are known to me.
Following his discharge, Fred Tompkins returned to Swavesey and resumed his occupation locally as an agricultural labourer. Fred moved into Cambridge probably in the early/mid 1930s. He was employed by Chivers at Histon as an agricultural labourer. On the death of his estranged first wife, in 1955, Fred married his long-term partner Beatrice Odell. Fred died on 21 June 1961, leaving no known descendants. His spouse survived until 1976.
Pte. George Tompkins
British Army 16th (Public Schools) Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Sutton at Hone, Dartford, Kent
(d.19th Dec 1917)
George Tompkins is my Great Great Uncle, son of Richard Tompkins and Ann Elizabeth Mills. Brother to my Great Grandfather Alfred Tompkins. He had 5 brothers and 5 sisters. He was born in 1884 in Sutton at Hone, was a loader by trade before enlisting and was married to Christiana Barnes in 1910. His only child Joyce Amy Maude was born in 1912. He died in France aged 33. He is buried in Rouen, France at the St Sever Cemetery Extension.
Cpl. Gerald Joseph Tompkins
British Army Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars
from:Islip, Oxfordshire
(d.19th Nov 1918)
Gerald Tompkins died of pneumonia at a Casualty Clearing Station. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Tompkins of Lower Farm, Islip, and husband of Edith Britton (nee Holiday).
Rflmn. Gilbert Tompkins
British Army 7th Btn. Rifle Brigade
(d.30th July 1915)
Pte. J. Tompkins
British Army 1st/7th Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead
(d.1st August 1919)
Private Tompkins was the Son of Arthur J. and Arabella C. Tompkins, of 18, Meadow Lane, Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead. He was 22 when he died and is buried in the Famagusta Military Cemetery in Cyprus, Grave 21.
Sjt Mjr John Errol Tompkins
Army Northumberland Fusiliers
I am trying to find information about paternal grandfather John Errol Tompkins. He was born in Cullercoats and became a Sergeant Major. My mother said he was severely injured in WW1 and served in the Northumberland Fusiliers.
Pte. Walter Arthur Tompkins
British Army Royal Fusiliers
from:N.E. London
(d.30th June 1917)
I am trying to find out where my mother's uncle, Wally Tompkins was killed.
Cpl. Wesley Tompkins MM
British Army 2nd Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Plaistow, London
(d.20th Sep 1917)
Wesely Tompkins was born in Limehouse, London. He entered the War on the 27th of July 1915 and died in action aged 23 in September 1917. His younger brother Thomas was lost in action near the beginning of the war the previous year. Their mother, a widow had had 5 sons: 3 died in childhood of natural causes and her remaining 2, Wesley and Thomas were killed on the Western front.
Pte. Henry Tompkinson MM.
British Army 2nd Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Stockton
Harry Tompkinson born in Stockton, Durham, England to Joseph Tompkinson and Maria Healey. He was a gunner and won the Military Medal for his actions during the War. The story is that he was protecting a defense post and the man who was meant to be handing him ammunition did a runner, leaving him to fight off the enemy alone.
Rflmn. Myer Tompofski MM.
British Army 2/7th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Leeds
(d.27th September 1918)
Myer Tompofski won his MM at the Battle of Bucquoy in March 1918 and was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Canal du Nord on 27th of September 1918. He was my mother's brother, always spoken of with huge affection. We have eight of his letters home revealing him to be a warm, funny, highly considerate son and brother. He is buried with his comrades at the Flesquieres Hill Cemetery near Cambrai. I have written a short play about my uncle based on his letters.
L/Cpl. Roland Tompson
North Somerset Yeomanry
from:Weston Super Mare
My Father, Roly Tomlinson attended Clarance School in Weston Super Mare. He served as Lance Corporal at Ypres with the North Somerset Yeomanry. He used to tell us stories about the wonderful horses which he helped to break in, then the regiment went mechanical and the chaps were issued with motor-bikes, so at 18yrs of age he transferred to the RFC. He told us he trained at a flying school in Princess Risborough and was commissioned for duty with the RFC as a 2nd Lieutenant, stationed at St Leonards on Sea.
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