Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers 51st Training (Reserve) Battalion

51st (Graduated) Battalion
27.10.1917 Formed at Welbeck from the 238th Graduated Battalion (formerly the new 4th Training Reserve Battalion) as part of the 206th Brigade of the 69th Division.
Early 1918 Moved to Middlesbrough and then Guisborough, Yorkshire where it remained.

52nd (Graduated) Battalion
27.10.1917 Formed at Canterbury from the 276th Graduated Battalion (formerly the new 3rd Training Reserve Battalion) as part of the 200th Brigade of the 67th Division.
05.03.1918 Moved to Barnards Castle and then Guisborough, Yorkshire where it remained.

53rd (Young Soldier) Battalion
27.10.1917 Formed at Rugeley, Cannock Chase from the 5th Young Soldier Battalion (formerly 10th Leicesters) as part of the 1st Reserve Brigade.
Oct 1918 Moved to Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.

Last Name
Address
Narrative
Thornham, Ernest
Private
Northumberland Fusiliers 51st Training (Reserve) Battalion
4, WARNE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
Area
Walmsley Street
       
Died on
15/07/1918
       
Aged
18
BORN BRANTINGHAM 1900. YOUNGEST CHILD OF  WILLIAM CHARLES THORNHAM (1865-1929) & LOUISA DOUGHTY (1865-1934), OF 52, WALMSLEY STREET, HULL, (1911 CENSUS) AND 4, WARNE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FOUR ELDER BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HE SERVED IN THE 51ST TRAINING BATTALION, NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. DIED OF PNEUMONI […]