William Tonkin

William Tonkin

Wilfred Tonkin, born 1898, was an apprentice at Newlyn Copperworks in Cornwall for twelve to eighteen months after leaving school.

He was the last surviving pre-first World War copperworker and there at the time of Obed Nicholls, Tom Batten and Johnny Payne Cotton.

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