CHARLES ALBERT TOMLIN

Photograph courtesy of Michael.

A Ipswich man not remembered on the memorial.

Born: 1894, Ipswich.

Died: 18th March 1917; age: 23.

Residence: Newmarket, Suffolk.

Enlistment Location: Newmarket, Suffolk.

Rank: Gunner; Service Number: 170518.

Regiment: Royal Field Artillery, ‘D’ Battery, 84th Brigade.

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

Grave Reference:

I.J.37.

Adanac Military Cemetery,

Miraumont,

Somme,

France.

Brother to SYDNEY ROBERT TOMLIN.

CENSUS

1901   Albert Street, Newmarket, Suffolk.

Charles was 6 years old and living with his parents & siblings.

Arthur Tomlin, 46, a Coachsmith, born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

Ellen Tomlin (nee Richardson), 48, born Hunstanton, Norfolk.

Emily Frances Tomlin, 15, a General Domestic Servant, born Hunstanton.

Sydney Robert Tomlin, 13, born Ipswich.

Mildred Rose Tomlin, 8, born Ipswich.

1911   Albert Street, Newmarket, Suffolk.

Charles was 16 years old, a Tailor. He was living with his parents.

Arthur, 57, a Coach Smith.

Ellen, 60.

A neat, little lady in a pinny was drawn on the Tomlin’s census return!

Soldiers’ Effects to Arthur Tomlin – father.