The richest enlisted man in the United States navy is at present serving on the cruiser Denver. He is the chief gunner's mate, B. Tomke, and wears medals won for gallantry in the Spanish war and the Boxer outbreak. Tomke has come into a fortune of £20,000 through the death of his grandmother in Strasburg, Ghnnany. "The estate will keep," said L'omke, when asked if he intended to buy his discharge from navy service. For ■ the next two years he will serve the navy as a petty office?
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15002, 25 May 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)
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