Name
Nicholas Thorn
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1918
42
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
202853
Essex Regiment
2nd Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RAMILLIES BRITISH CEMETERY
E. 15.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial,
Hertford Baptist Church,
All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford,
St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Hertford,
St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Hertford,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford,
Not on the Hertingfordbury memorials,
Not on the Bayford & Brickendon memorials
Pre War
Born in 1877 in Well Row, Bayford, Hertfordshire and baptised on 30 Mar 1879 in Bayford son of William Wade and Jane Thorn (nee Broomfield) and was living in Bayford in 1881.
He was in an orphan school in St. Pancras, London in 1891 and living back with his widowed mother in 67 Somerset Terrace, Hertford in 1901 and working as a postman.
He married Emily Church in 1907 in Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire and they lived at "Burn Brae," 50 Hertingfordbury Road, Hertford in 1911. He was a postman and had two daughters.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford formerly 271018 Hertfordshire Regiment and died of wounds.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
