| Notes: | MFP. Awarded the Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (5) East Africa, 19/8/1916. Info from service record: Enlisted Plymouth 10/12/1915, resided at 47 Neswich Street, Plymouth, age 27, occupation Police Constable. Embarked Devonport 19/8/1916 arrive Kilindini, East Africa 30/10/1916 on SS Bellana. 30/11/1916 Hospital Malaria Dar-es-Salam, 12/3/1919 Embarked on H T Salamis for England via Durban. Attested 10/12/15, Army Reserve 11/12/15 to 1/6/16, Home 2/6/16 to 18/8/16, East African Exp Force 19/8/16 to 12/3/19, En Route 13/3/19 to 25/4/19, Home 26/4/19 to 16/6/19 to class Z reserve. Frank Percival Tunstall.
Extract from the Western Morning Post, 17/5/1920. Death Of PS Tunstall. Result Of a Motor Accident.
Police Sergeant Frank Tunstall, Plymouth Force, died in the South Devon and Cornwall Hospital yesterday from a fractured skull, sustained in a motor accident near Ivybridge on Friday. P S Tunstall was one of the chief witnesses at the astounding bigamy case at Totness and was returning to Plymouth after attending the trial. Aged 32, he had been with the Plymouth force about nine years. During the war he served in Africa with the Military Foot Police and a few months ago he passed the examination and was promoted sergeant. He was single and resided with his widowed mother at Neswick Street, Plymouth. |
