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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.