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The Roll lists no military details other than the rank Sergeant, and records no address for him. It misrecords him as "John Tomlin"; hus name was actually John James Tomblin.
(CWGC records that Serjeant John James Tomblin, regimental number 295247, died aged 26 on 20/9/1917 serving in 2nd/4th Battalion of the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), and is commemorated on Panel 52 of Ypres Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. They record him as the son of Fanny Tomblin and the late William Tomblin , and as the husband of Elizabeth Tomblin of 15 Mitford Street, Filey, Yorkshire.
The birth of John James Tomblin was registered in Peterborough District in 1891. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents William and Fanny Tomblin at 2 Sandwich House, Yaxley, which was given as his place of birth. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at Sandwich Cottages, Middleton's Lane, Yaxley.
The marriage of John J Tomblin to Elizabeth Cammish was registered in Scarborough District in 1916; the birth of their son Jack was registered in the same District in 1917. Prior to her marriage, on the 1911 census the 21 year old Elizabeth Cammish had been a live-in domestic servant at 15 Mitford Street, Filey.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records John James Tomblin as a native of Yaxley, where he was living when he enlisted at Fletton; it records that he served in the Hunts Cyclist Battalion under regimental number 228 before joining the London regiment. The Medal Rolls record that John served overseas as a Sergeant in the Hunts Cyclist Batttalion under regimental number 290063 from 1/8/1917 to 17/8/1917, and that he served overseas with the 4th Battalion London Regiment from 18/8/1917. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he was killed in action in Belgium, and that his widow Elizabeth was his legatee).