{"id":4990,"date":"2023-11-10T09:10:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2023-11-10T09:10:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:10:28","slug":"tompkins-e-pte-54-8th-australian-imperial-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/tompkins-e-pte-54-8th-australian-imperial-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Tompkins E Pte 54 8th Australian Imperial Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4991\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tompkins-E-Pte-54-8th-Australian-Imperial-Force.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4991\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4991\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tompkins-E-Pte-54-8th-Australian-Imperial-Force-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tompkins E Pte 54 8th Australian Imperial Force\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tompkins-E-Pte-54-8th-Australian-Imperial-Force-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tompkins-E-Pte-54-8th-Australian-Imperial-Force.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tompkins E Pte 54 8th Australian Imperial Force<\/p><\/div>\n<p>TOMPKINS, EDWIN, Private, No. 54, 8th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Henry James Tompkins, of 133, St. James&#8217; Road, Northampton, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of William Griffin; b. Great Houghton, co. Northampton, 30 March, 1894; educ. Kingsthorpe and Council School, St. James&#8217; End; was an employee in Wolverton Carriage Works, and joined the Oxford and Bucks Territorials in May, 1913; emigrated to Australia in July, 1913, and settled in Victoria as a Farm Hand; joined the Australian Imperial Force after the outbreak of the European War, 1 Sept. 1914; left for Egypt, 19 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and died in King&#8217;s College Hospital, London, 16 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli the previous May; unm.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOMPKINS, EDWIN, Private, No. 54, 8th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Henry James Tompkins, of 133, St. James&#8217; Road, Northampton, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of William Griffin; b. Great Houghton, co. Northampton, 30 March, 1894; educ. Kingsthorpe and Council School, St. James&#8217; End; was an employee in Wolverton Carriage Works, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-imperial-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4992,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}