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Leongatha & District
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HISTORY OF THE FORMER WOORAYL SHIRE
Dumbalk • Inverloch • Koonwarra • Leongatha • Meeniyan • Ruby
Tarwin Lower • Venus Bay • Walkerville
TOMPKINS, Edwin
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Private 54
8th Battalion, A Company
Houghton Northampton
His father, Henry James Tompkins of 133 St James Rd Northampton. Single man
Melbourne 1/9/1914
20 years and 5 months, 169 pounds, grey eyes and light brown hair
Church of England
Farm hand
He was wounded at Gallipoli, taken to Alexandria then invalided to London where he died of his wounds
Dallington Cemetery Northampton
He lived and worked in the Meeniyan area
He is on the Meeniyan Honour Roll
1/9/14 He enlisted in Meeniyan
19/10/14 He embarked Melbourne on HMAT Benella
He served in Egypt and Gallipoli
He was wounded in the head at Gallipoli and moved to Alexandria and then invalided to London where he died.
He was buried in Dallington Cemetery Northampton
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