Participant Info

Surname

Tonkin

First Name

James

Initial

E

Service Number

474

Rank

private

Unit Served

20th Battalion, late 18th Battalion

Service Record

Rabaul, Gallipoli

Enlistment Date

1914

Enlistment Month

August 11

Embarkation Year

1915

Embarkation Month

June 25

Date of Death

Month of Death

Death Category

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 16, image page 17

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

Ernest G. and M. Tonkin

Parental Address

405 New Canterbury Road, Dulwich Hill

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

"born at Waverley, August 19, 1894, educated Petersham Public School, railway labourer, enlisted August 1914. War service: Rabaul (contracted malaria fever), invalided to Australia, discharged as medically unfit, re-enlisted, injured Gallipoli, returned t