Name
Sydney Arthur Tomlinson
04/08/1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/11/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
47489
Northumberland Fusiliers
23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
IX. G. 24.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town War memorial, St Clements Church Memorial Turnford
Pre War
Sydney Arthur Tomlinson was born in Paddington, London/Middx, on 4th August 1892, son of Arthur William Tomlinson a, Nursery Garden Hand and Julia Tomlinson (nee Maskell). One of eight children although one died in infancy.
He was Baptised at Saint Saviours Church, Paddington, on 18th September 1892, at the time the family lived at, 4 Canterbury Terrace, Paddington.
1901 Census, Sydney aged 3, is living with his parents, three sisters and two brothers at 27 Turnford Villas, Turnford, Herts. The family had a boarder Charles Stanford a Nurseryman.
1911 Census, Sydney (18), is working as a Baker, living with his parents, sister Olive (11), brothers Arnold (15) and Ernest (8), still at 27 Turnford Villas.
Wartime Service
Sydney enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, initially posted to the Royal Field Artillery with the service number 157763, later transferred to the 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers with the service number 47489.
Seeing action on the Western Front, Sydney was taken a Prisoner of War (POW) on 21st March 1918, by the Germans in the area of Bullecourt, France, and taken to the German POW Camp at Marchiennes, France, later moved to a POW Camp in Germany where he died on 21st November 1918, the cause of death is not known, he is buried in the Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany. Grave Ref: IX. G. 24.
Additional Information
His effects of £25-6s-11d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £13, went to his father Arthur Tomlinson.
His name is spelt Tonlinson on the St Clements Church Memorial in Turnford.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
