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Corporal THOMAS LEONARD TONKIN

Service Number: 2447
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

2nd/4th

Date of Death

Died 28 December 1915

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KUT WAR CEMETERY

M. 13.

Iraq

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2nd Bn. Norfolk Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. T. and Mrs. E. J. Tonkin, of Rose Cottage, St. Teath, Cornwall. Born at Delabole.
  • Personal Inscription WE ARE PROUD OF OUR BOY
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Buried or commemorated at

KUT WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 421
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