Participant Info

Surname

Tomkins

First Name

Sydney

Initial

C

Service Number

2834

Rank

sapper

Unit Served

7th Field Company, Engineers

Service Record

Egypt, France

Enlistment Date

1915

Enlistment Month

September 17

Embarkation Year

1915

Embarkation Month

December 22

Date of Death

1916

Month of Death

November 14

Death Category

KIA

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 92, image page 90

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

George and Florence E. Tomkins

Parental Address

Church Street, Canterbury

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

"born at Canterbury, August 9, 1891, educated Canterbury Public School, builder, enlisted August 31, 1915, embarked November 30, 1915. War service: Egypt, France. Sapper S. C.Tomkins was one of the first Australians to land in France, he made the supreme