TONKING David Wilson

  • First Name(s):
    David 
    Wilson 
  • Surname:
    TONKING
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Second Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
  • Battalion:
    3rd Battalion
  • Unit:
    attached 10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    29th May 1917
  • Age At Death:
    24
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord), France, Grave III. B. 67.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of John H. and Martha Janet Tonking, of Trevu, Camborne, Cornwall

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Further Information About TONKING David Wilson

2nd Lieut., Devon and Cornwall Light Infantry
Born, December 31, 1891. Fell in France, May 29th, 1917.
David Tonking was the eldest son of Dr. J. H. Tonking, of Camborne, Cornwall.  He entered the School, when nine years old, in the First Form, and was for eight years a member of the School House.  He played for the First Cricket XI. in his last year.  He matriculated early for Cambridge in 1909 from the Sixth Form, and entered Magdalene College with a view to the medical profession.  At Cambridge he changed his aim and entered an engineering firm at Leicester.  At the outbreak of war he joined the Public Schools’ Battalion, and after a year’s service in that took a commission in his county regiment.  He crossed to France early in 1917 and died of wounds in May.
W. H. C.

Source for additional information: The Vigornian, June 1917, No.89, Vol.VIII

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