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Victoria Cross & George Cross Holders of Birmingham

Tombs baptism as St Barnabas Erdington as Frederick
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On 1891 census they are in Leicestershire and he is listed as Griffith.
1901 he is a boarder at Grantham (where there is now a blue plaque) and listed as Frederick G.
 
Thanks Janice. Tombs (Griffiths) seems to have happily lost the “Tombs” from his name. Wonder why ? He didn’t register as Frederick (also his father’s name) at school and didn’t know his fathers address when he enlisted (parents had separated). Sounds to me that he probably wanted to cut the ties with his father.

What an interesting life he had. Viv.
 
One site suggests he was born in Australia as "no English birth record found" but I suspect they looked for his enlisted name of James Harcourt Tombs.
Interesting character.
 
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