BORN HUDDERSFIELD 1892. SON OF ALLEN & ELLEN OF 117, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL – (HULL DAILY MAIL 31/03/1919). EX WOOD PATTERN MAKER AND WASTE DEALER. LIVED HULL. MARRIED 6TH NOVEMBER 1915, AGED 24. HIS WIFE LIVED AT 27 BENTLEY STREET, LOCKWOOD, YORKSHIRE AND 117, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
ENLISTED LEEDS. SERVED WITH THE 5TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED A PRISONER OF WAR, IN GERMANY, ON 01/05/1918, AGED 26.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, BEATRICE MARY, ALSO AT 117, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
COMMEMORATED AT THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
First name:
THORNTON
Military Number:
305525
Rank:
Private
Date Died
01/05/1918
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
26
117, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
