His story
Stephen Tomer was a married labourer from Woodstock, New Brunswick, born on 14 January 1888. He named his mother Margaret as next of kin and declared a year’s earlier service in the 67th Regiment. His attestation was completed at Sussex on 17 August 1915. The variant Stephen Tomah also occurs in the records used to identify him.
He served as a private in the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps, no. 445412. He died on 6 April 1918, aged thirty, and was buried at Cardiff’s Cathays Cemetery. A portrait is preserved in the Veterans Affairs Canada gallery, traced to the August 1922 ‘All Woodstock Number’ of The Busy East of Canada.
Before the war
- Nationality
- Canadian service
- Date of birth
- 14 January 1888
- Place of birth
- Woodstock, New Brunswick
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Family
- Mother: Margaret Tomer
Military service
- Rank recorded
- Private
- Service number
- 445412
- Corps or service
- Canadian Army Veterinary Corps
- Enlistment or entry recorded
- 17 August 1915 at Sussex
- Earlier service
- One year in the 67th Regiment
Death and burial
- Date of death
- 6 April 1918
- Age
- 30
- Cemetery or memorial
- Cardiff (Cathays) Cemetery
- Grave reference
- EB. 57.
Connected men
- Sidney CREASEYAlso buried at Cardiff (Cathays) Cemetery
Sources and further reading
- ROATH LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY — BIOGRAPHICAL RECONSTRUCTION
- CANADIAN DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE — FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS
- Canadian Virtual War Memorial record
- LAC attestation
- Albany hospital history
- CWGC casualty and commemoration record
Cite this biography
Graham Hodgkins and Pete Matthews, “Stephen Tomer”, Veterinary Virtual War Memorial, https://vetsremembered.org/people/stephen_tomer/.
Contribute information
Can you identify Tomer's original casualty or hospital record to resolve his place and cause of death, or supply the complete magazine portrait reference?