BORN HULL 1895. SON OF FRANK THURLOE (1870-1918) AND SARAH AVELINE JENSEN (1868-1920), OF 116, YORK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BOTH PARENTS WERE BORN IN HULL. SON OF A PAINT WORKER. ONE OF FOUR E SONS. HE HAD ONE SISTER.
HE LIVED AT 12, HOWARDS ROW, CHAPMAN STREET, HULL,(1911 CENSUS). WORKED AS A LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 10TH EYR. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 28/06/1918, AGED 23. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, AVELINA.
HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, GEORGE THURLOE, 11TH EYR WAS KILLED ON TH SAME DAY, 28/06/1918, AGED 19. HIS FATHER ALSO DIED IN 1918.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. Private, FRANK THURLOE, 3/6758. Born June 1895, Frank was the eldest of five children to Frank and Sarah Thurloe of 12 Howard’s Row, Chapman Street, Hull. The family has been hard to trace as Sarah used her middle name “Aveline” and both her and the children used her maiden name “Jensen”. A General Labourer before the war, Frank originally joined the 3rd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, but was transferred to the 10th, and it was with fighting with them, around the remains of a French farm called Le Cornet Perdu, that he was killed in action on 28th June 1918. He very likely fell victim to the British 18-pounders which were firing short in the bombardment, which preceded their attack. His body was never recovered, suggesting it may have been blown to smithereens. Frank Thurloe is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the missing; he was 23 years old. It struck me that he may have switched back to “Thurloe” because of the Germanic connotations with “Jenson”. His mother’s name is a Danish/Norwegian version of the German “Janson” which wouldn’t have made the family many friends in deeply anti-German times. I’m speculating of course. Once again tragedy hit this family more than it should. His brother George Thurlow, 11th East Yorkshire Regiment was killed the same day, on 28th June 1918, aged 19. His father died also in 1918 and Sarah Thurloe died in 1920. She had lost her husband and two sons, all at once. Hard times.
