Name
Oswald Leslie Tomlin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
75366
Royal Engineers
A.N. Cable Section
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BRANDHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
II. F. 14.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
In heaven to meet again Father and Mother Brothers and Sisters love
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin,
British Schools Museum Memorial, Hitchin
Pre War
He was the son of James and Mary Ann Tomlin of Hitchin. His home was at 3 Hitchin Hill Path, Hitchin. He was a chairman at St. John’s Church, Sunnyside, Hitchin.
Born, resident and enlisting in Hitchin,
Wartime Service
Oswald was given Corps Number 75366 and posted to the A.N. Cable Section R.E.
He was killed in action in Belgium and was buried in Plot 2, Row F, Grave 14 in the Brandhoek Military Cemetery in Belgium.
This cemetery was opened to serve an adjacent Dressing Station, which suggests that he died of wounds.
Additional Information
There is a private inscription on his gravestone reading "In heaven to meet again Father and Mother Brothers and Sisters love"
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
