Name
Denzil Robert Thurstan (AFC) (poss Thurston)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/02/1919
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Air Force
Airship Training Wing (Cranwell)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Air Force Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LINCOLN (NEWPORT) CEMETERY
C. D Red. 19.
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 29 Jul 1888 and baptised on 25 Aug 1888 in Southborough, Kent son of Dr. Edward Paget and Anna Wilhelmina Thurstan M.D. later of Perth, Western Australia. Educated at Haileybury College 1902-05. He married Marjorie Joan Theresa Evans on 20 Jul 1916 in Hampstead, London.
Wartime Service
He joined the Navy as an assistant clerk on 15 Jan 1906 and became a Paymaster in 1909. On 12 Feb 1916 he is appointed Flight Lieutenant and 30 Jun 1917 Flight Commander R.N.A.S. He acted as interpreter in Russian, Spanish, French and German. He also appeared to be a qualified Airship Pilot. He died in Lincoln Hospital probably of influenza.
Air Force Cross (3 Jun 1919).
Additional Information
Family name is Thurstan but is present in many records as Thurston.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
