Name
John Edward Thrussell (poss Throssell)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pirton School Memorial
Biography
John appears on the School War Memorial, confirming that he attended the school. Parish and census records suggest only one possible man of this name who could have served and, in fact, it is the 1891 census records which reveal a John Thrussell, aged five, as the son of William and Sarah Thrussell. He would have been about twenty-eight at the outbreak of war. Before the war he was recorded as a boot and shoemaker.
The Parish Magazine of June 1917 records him as serving in the Royal Engineers. After the war he must have returned to his original trade, as the 1926 Trade Directory records him as working as a boot maker from the Post Office, Little Green. He presumably married, as his headstone in St. Mary’s churchyard reads John Edward Thrussell 1885-1966 and Ethel Alice Thrussell 1888-1966.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
