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Private Harry Alexander Tompkinson

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Military service

Service number: K/97911
Age: 52
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: The Canadian Provost Corps
Death: June 4, 1945

Burial/memorial information

VANCOUVER (MOUNTAIN VIEW) CEMETERY
Grave reference: Block 6. Plot 8. Lot 13.
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Born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in December 1892. He was the son of Samuel and Katherine (née Carmichael) Thompkinson of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Brother of James, Samuel and Jack and Lance Corporal Frank Tomkinson, (715755) who was killed on 2 September 1918 while serving with the 87th Battalion. Harry served in the First World War with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment (#298) and was wounded at Suvla on 30 November 1915 and eventually repatriated home as medically unfit on 12 September 1916. He had three daughters from his first marriage to Isabella. They were Mary, Caroline and Madonna. He remarried after the death of his first wife to Dolly (née Atcheson) Tompkinson, of Winnipeg, Manitoba and had another daughter, Florence. He was very good with his hands and he liked to do finishing carpentry. He left Newfoundland in 1922 for Winnipeg where he spent his life before re-enlisting and serving in the Second World War.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 616 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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VANCOUVER (MOUNTAIN VIEW) CEMETERY British Columbia, Canada

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