Frank Nevil Tomlinson

Sapper

Conflict:

WW1

Additional Information:

Served on the Western Front, 1917.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

"ALCOHOLIC POISONING. An inquest was held at the Courthouse yesterday by Mr S. E. McCarthy, District Coroner, touching the death or Frank Tomlinson forty years of age, who died suddenly at the Shades Hotel on Sunday. The medical evidence was to the effect that the deceased died from alcoholic poisoning. He also had valvular disease of the heart, inflammation of the lungs and inflammation of the liver. The Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence."

LYTTELTON TIMES, VOLUME CXVIII, ISSUE 18551, 2 NOVEMBER 1920, PAGE 5

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Casualty

Service Number:

37615

Name:

Frank Nevil Tomlinson

Rank:

Sapper

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

New Zealand Engineers, Tunnelling Company

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Alcoholic Poisoning

Date of Death:

31 October 1920

Day of Death:

Sunday

Conflict:

WW1

Embarkation Details

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Christchurch (Bromley) Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

Block 35. Lot 67.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand