BORN HUNSLET 1872. SON OF ISSAC HARGREAVES & ANN THORNTON. HE MARRIED IN 1894. HIS WIFE ELEANOR HILL LIVED AT 18, WALTERS CRESCENT, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL. THEIR ONLY SON ALBERT WAS BORN IN 1905. (1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. EX PRIVATE, 119 EYR. HE HAD SERVED IN INDIA FOR THREE YEARS. HE TRANSFERRED TO THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ATÂ LADYWELL MILITARY HOSPITAL, IN LEWISHAM, ON 05/07/1918, AGED 46. HE IS BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ELEANOR, WHO MOVED TO 4, FLETCHER’S TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL.
HIS DEATH, ADDRESS AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 11/07/1918. *
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH MEMORIAL, NEWINGTON, HULL.
First name:
CORNELIUS THORNTON
Regiment:
Military Number:
20313
Rank:
Private
Date Died
05/07/1918
Place died:
Hull Western Cemetery, East Yorkshire, UK
Age:
46
18, WALTERS CRESCENT, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
