James Tonge
James was born in June 1888 in
Pendleton.
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Birth Notes
Name: James Tonge
Registration Year: 1888
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district: Salford, Lancashire
Volume: 8d
Page: 2
Aged 27 & 6mon on 11 Dec 1915.
James' father was
James Tonge (aka Mather) and his mother was
Janet Hepburn. His paternal grandparents were
Thomas Tonge and
Agnes Wane. He had two sisters named
Agnes and
Margaret. He was the youngest of the three children. He had three half-brothers and two half-sisters, named
Thomas,
James,
Joseph,
Agnes and
Mary. He died as a war casualty, WW1, at the age of 29 on June 14th, 1917 in
France.
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Death Notes
James P67512 was in the Army Reserve (Private, in the Cheshire Regiment) 12.12.15, and was posted to France four times, 20.12.16 being the last (during WW1). His service record is stamped "Died of Wounds Involved in Action" and dated 14.6.17