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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.

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