1889 Born Mayo
1901 census at Lower Piper Hill, Ballina, Mayo
1907/08 enlisted in RSF
1911 census Private Anthony Tolan serving with the 1st Bn. RSF in South Africa in 1911 and who came from Ballina, County Mayo. He was stationed at Robert Heights in the Transvaal.
1914 Oct 6 landed in France
1914 Oct 31 KIA aged 25 . His mother was Anne Tolan of Knockleaugh (Knockalough or Knockleigh?) Cottage, Ballina, County Mayo. Pension cards show his mother re-married as Mrs. Anne QUIGLEY, Mill St., Ballina, Co. Mayo. The census shows this to be1900/1901, but I cannot get a GRO marriage
