Lieutenant Arthur Woodland Toms
3rd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment
27/11/1914
1914 Star
Son of Frederick Woodland & Emily S E Toms,
of Claremont Terrace, St. Helier, Jersey.
Accidentally killed, aged 22 years
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Thursday 3 December
1914
Death of an Old Victorian. We regret to
announce that on 27 November 1914 Lieutenant Arthur
Woodland Toms 3rd Devonshire Regiment attached to 2nd
Scottish Rifles (Cameronians) on service with the British
Expeditionary Force in Flanders was accidentally killed.
The deceased who was the second son of Mr F W Toms,
States Analyst, was educated at Victoria College where
he was a Prefect and Vice Captain of the football team
in 1908/9; he was a Sergeant in the OTC and a member
of the shooting team. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant (on probation)
in 3rd Devons (Special Reserve) in February 1912 he
obtained his Lieutenancy in February last. He was Captain
of the Young Soldiers shooting team of his Regiment
in 1913 and 1914. He was preparing for service in the
Colonial Office and received an offer of an appointment
in West Africa from the Secretary of State for the Colonies
three days before the declaration of war. The deceased
was only 23 years of age
