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Military service
Service number:
H/41649
Age:
42
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
January 15, 1899
Howyley, Austria
Enlistment:
July 12, 1941
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
December 19, 1941
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 28.
Additional information
Son of Ladislas and Anna Tompkins.
Digital gallery of Private John Edward Tompkins
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Inscription
Private JOHN EDWARD TOMPKINS is one of 27 members of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Newspaper Clipping
Private JOHN EDWARD TOMPKINS was reported Missing in Action, in the Canadian Army's 243rdth overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8, 1943. -
Dedicatory Inscription of the Sai Wan Memorial
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada.
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Private John Edward Tompkins
Digital gallery of
Private John Edward Tompkins
Digital gallery of
Private John Edward Tompkins
Digital gallery of
Private John Edward Tompkins
Digital gallery of
Private John Edward Tompkins
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 46 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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