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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 220

Pair: Midshipman C. W. Tomlinson, Royal Naval Reserve

British War and Victory Medals (Mid. C. W. Tomlinson. R.N.R.), good very fine and better (2)

Cecil Walter Tomlinson was born on 9 May 1901 at Grantham, Lincolnshire, the son of Albert George Tomlinson, a manufacturer. He served as Temporary Midshipman aboard the armed merchant cruiser Himalaya from 10 May 1918, transferring to the light cruiser Carysfort on 21 September 1918. Tomlinson was discharged in March 1919, his service papers noting him as a 'keen young officer'. In 1926 he married Kate Alma Johnston, daughter of a shipmaster, at St. Saviour's Church, Paddington and died at Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1981.

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£35

Starting price
£20