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Surname: TOMLINSON
Forename(s): Thomas
Place of Birth: Ingleton, Yorkshire
Service No: 718728
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Canadian Infantry
Battalion / Unit: 107th Battalion (Winnipeg)
Division: ---
Age: 32
Date of Death: 1916-07-19
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Mil. 45.
CWGC Cemetery: WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
Thomas (born 6 August 1883) was the son of Edward and Mary Jane Tomlinson, née Rushton. Edward was born at Ingleton and Mary Jane at Waddington, Yorkshire.
1891 Austwick, Yorkshire Census: Thos. Tomlinson, aged 7 years, born Ingleton, Yorkshire, son of Edward and Mary Tomlinson.
1901 Clapham, Yorkshire Census: Thomas Tomlinson, aged 17 years, born Ingleton, Yorkshire. [Thomas was boarding with Frederick and Catherine Shepherd. His parents, Edward and Mary Jane Tomlinson, were living at Bentham.]
Canadian service records: http://www.baclac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef
Data Source: West Yorkshire Pioneer Article
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Canadian Infantry
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12 July 1918
BENTHAM
DEATH OF EX-SERGT. TOMLINSON – The death took Place at Peely, Saskatchewan, Canada of Edward Tomlinson, ex-sergeant of police, and for many years stationed at Clapham and Bentham. He was very well-known throughout the Ewecross Division, and was in his 68th year. He retired on pension in 1905, and left Bentham for Canada about 11 years ago with his wife and family, and went to Peely, Saskatchewan, where he and his three sons took up farming. His second son, Thomas, joined the Canadian forces at Winnipeg, but died after four months’ training, and he left surviving him a widow, three sons, and one daughter. The deceased was a native of the village of Waddington [sic].
[Father of Pte. Thomas Tomlinson.]
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