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Thomas Tomlinson was born in Beverley the 9 Nov 1884 and baptised at St Mary’s Church on 3 May 1885, the son of William Tomlinson, from Etton, and Elizabeth Escrick, from Skirlaugh. Tom was brought up on Waltham Terrace, Chantry Lane and Brougham’s Yard in Beverley. His father was a tanner’s labourer. In 1901 Tom was a clothier’s assistant, and later became a labourer, but after Jan 1902 he served in the army as a private in the East Yorkshire Regiment. He transferred to the Reserve with the East Yorkshires in 1909 and was still with them at the outbreak of war. On 11 Oct 1914 after he had been mobilised Tom married Lilian May Massey. They had nine children. In 1914 they were living at Hobson’s Yard, North Bar Within.
Tom served in the UK until being sent to France on 22 Dec 1916 with the 6th East Yorkshires. At home he had had serious disciplinary issues. In 1912 he had served 3 weeks (with hard labour) at Hull prison for intent to rob. In Mar 1915 and in Feb 1916 he went absent without leave and was sentenced to nine months and six months imprisonment with hard labour respectively but much of the sentences were commuted. He served in France with the 6th and on 4 Jun 1917 he received a serious gunshot wounds in the back. He was returned to the UK for treatment having been in hospital in Boulogne. Tom was transferred to the Labour Corps in the UK until 1920 and was off frontline duty. He served in the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment (TA) between 1921 and 1925. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals.
After the war Tom worked as a labourer, in 1939 he was living at 27 The Causeway, Beverley with his large family. He died in Feb 1946 aged 61 and was buried at Queensgate Cemetery on 22 Feb 1946. Lilian died in 1971.
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