Charles Tomlinson

Bank: Williams Deacon’s Bank

Place of work: Chesterfield branch

Died: 6 September 1915

Charles Tomlinson was born in Baslow, Derbyshire, in 1894, the son of Richard and Catherine Tomlinson. He worked for Williams Deacon's Bank.

Early in the First World War Tomlinson left his job at the bank's Chesterfield branch to go on military service. Lance Corporal Charles Tomlinson of the Signal Corps, Royal Engineers, was killed in action in Turkey on 6 September 1915. He was 21 years old.

Charles Tomlinson is commemorated on a bank war memorial at Hardman Boulevard office, Manchester.

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Simon Franklin November 9 2018 6:11PM

Thank you for remembering my great uncle, someone that was never spoken about by my grandmother. Her son, my uncle, didn’t last week know that he had had an uncle who was only a year older than his mother. Great suppressed grief which is good to acknowledge.

Simon Franklin, grandson of Kate Tomlinson