Name
Charles Tolman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/07/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/5121
East Surrey Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
VIII. C. 105.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Charles Thomas TOLMAN of Great Stanmore, and Lizzie (nee BROWN) TOLMAN.
His parents married 1882 in the Hendon, Middx, district. Charles died 1935 in the Hendon district aged 88; Lizzie died 28 January 1926 in Talgarth, Brecs, aged 71.
Charles was born 1893 in Stanmore, and resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in Great Stanmore, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, an assistant in a woollen warehouse aged 18 he still lived in Great Stanmore, with his mother and four siblings.
Officially recorded as born in Stanmore, Middx. and was living in Watford when he enlisted in London.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Stanmore, Middx; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 27 July 1915, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Charles’ Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH online via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
