Private 10/1426 Stanley TONKINSON

Private 10/1426 Stanley Tonkinson{gallery}Pte S Tonkinson{/gallery}8th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
Killed in action in France and Flanders, 14th July 1916, aged 17

• Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 2C
  
• Awarded British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Edward Leigh and Sarah A Tonkinson [nee Walley]
• NNWFHS Memorials: Atherstone and Atherstone Grammar School
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Tonkinson
• NNWFHS Atherstone War Memorial Page
• Thiepval Memorial
• East Yorkshire Regiment

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born c1899 at Kidderminster
• Attended Atherstone Grammar School
• Lived at 104 Long Street, Atherstone [1911]
• Lived at 43 Norwood?, Beverley, Yorks [1915]
  
• Was a schoolboy in 1911
• Employed as a clerk [1915]
• Enlisted 22 Jun 1915 at Beverley