Private W Tomkins had regimental number 3782 and served in both the 1st and 2nd Battalions of The Sherwood Foresters. He served in the Tirah campaign 1895-98.  

Private Tomkins further served in the Boer War being posted in from the 2nd Battalion at Malta to join the 1st Battalion at Rustenburg in South Africa on the 5th of December 1901.  He was discharged on the 19th of September 1902.