Capt Arthur de Bells Adam (MC)
1885 - 1916

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1887 - 1916

Lce-Corpl John Joseph Nickle
1894 - 1916

Pte 17911 Morton Neill
1897 - 1916

Lieut Edward Stanley Ashcroft
1883 - 1918

Pte 90940 Frederick William Tomlinson

Age: 19
From: Workington
Regiment: The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 17th Btn
K.I.A Saturday 20th April 1918
Commemorated at: Tyne Cot Memorial
Panel Ref: Panel 31-34

Frederick William ( known as Fred) Tomlinson was born in Workington, Cumberland on 27th December 1898, the son of Joseph Henry Johnstone Tomlinson and his wife Annie Eliza (nee Wright), who married in Cockermouth in 1896. His father was from Cumberland and his mother from Yorkshire. He was the second of five children, and the only son. He had an older sister Florence Lilian, born in 1897, and younger sisters Mary Harvey 1903, Margaret Musgrave 1908, and Phyllis May 1913.

1901 13 Whitfield Street, Workington, with two children, Frederick is 2. His father is an iron/steel worker. They have a boarder William John Wright, 19.

Fred attended St. Michael’s Boys’ School until the family moved to Droylsden in 1907.

The 1911 census finds them at 535 Edge Lane, Droylsden, described as a 4-room cottage. His father, 37, is a labourer in the staple department of a wire drawing works, his mother 36. Florence, 13, Frederick, 12, and Mary, 7, are at school, Margaret is 2.

He was serving in the 17^th Battalion, The King’s Liverpool Regiment as Private No 90940 when he was killed in action on the 20^th April 1918, aged 19, during the German Spring Offensive.

Fred has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.

Those United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after August 16th 1917 are named on the Tyne Cot Memorial, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war.

The Tyne Cot Memorial now bears the names of almost 35,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by Joseph Armitage and F.V. Blundstone, was unveiled by Sir Gilbert Dyett on 20 June 1927.

The memorial forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which was established around a captured German blockhouse or pill-box used as an advanced dressing station.

His Amy effects and a War Gratuity of £4-10s went to his mother Annie, living at 42 Kershaw Street, Droylsden.

His parents lost another child when his sister Margaret died in 1935, aged 26.

In 1939 his parents with daughter Phyllis are still at 42 Kershaw Street. His father is a boiler fireman (the family is listed as Richardson, the surname of married sister Phyllis).

His father died in 1951 aged 77, and his mother in 1953 aged 78.

We currently have no further information on Frederick William Tomlinson, If you have or know someone who may be able to add to the history of this soldier, please contact us.

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