Military service
Service number:
715755
Age:
21
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
87th Bn.
Birth:
February 21, 1897
Death:
September 2, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 9.
Additional information
Son of Samuel and Katherine Tomkinson, of Pictou Landing, Nova Scotia. Brother of James, Samuel and Jack and Pte Harry Alexander Tomkinson, K/97911, who died on June 4, 1945 while serving with the Canadian Provost Corps.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Frank Tomkinson
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Photo
Served with the 106th Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles) CEF. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Frank Tompkinson
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Frank Tomkinson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Frank Tomkinson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Frank Tomkinson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 513 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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