Private Harry Tonge

Army Number : 47662 (formerly 158362 Royal Engineers)

Battalion : 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Rotherham, Yorkshire and lived at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. He enlisted at Hucknall and was killed in action, 24th December 1916 by shellfire.

Buried Essex Farm Cemetery, Belgium. Plot II. Row J. Grave 6.

Private Harry Tonge is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Mary Magdalen Church War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Titchfield Park War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.