Service no. 38688
Bombardier, Royal Field Artillery, "D" Bty. 82nd Bde.
Died on 6 December 1917, aged about 18
Remembered at Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Edwin Tomes, a 12-year-old schoolboy, was sharing two rooms with his mother and sister, at 26 Gladstone Terrace, Battersea. He was born in Cosham, Hampshire. Edwin's widowed mother, Christina Tomes, 49, a machinist, was born in St Petersburg, Russia. His sister, also called Christina, and also working as a machinist, was born in Portsmouth. Edwin and his sister had three siblings, one of whom, Laurence Tomes, is also remembered on the Holy Trinity memorial.