Able Seaman John “Jack” Austin Tomlinson

Able Seaman John “Jack” Austin Tomlinson, was born in 1923, son of Samuel Matthew Tomlinson and Emma Laura Hyde. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve. During WWII, he operated out of Niobe, the Canadian Navy’s shore establishment in Scotland. He served on the Tribal Destroyer Huron. After the war, he married Myra Robert Graham, also from Paris, and lived in his parents’ former home at 68 Dumfries Street. The couple had three children. Jack Tomlinson died at 58 years of age and is buried with his wife in the Paris Cemetery.