Name
Alfred Thurston Mills
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
19/11/1941
63
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
Home Guard
2nd Hertfordshire Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
S. E. Extn. Grave 527.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
He had been a headmaster.
He joined the 2nd Hertfordshire Battalion and at 6.45pm on the evening of his death was on his way to report for duty at the Priory in Hitchin. He was crossing the Market Square in the dark when an Eastern National bus came into the square trying to turn. The bus struck him and he went under its wheels causing severe internal injuries from which he died.
He was buried in Hitchin Cemetery Southeast Extension in Grave 527.
He was the son of William Thurston and Rosa Mills and the husband of Alice Maud Mills of Hitchin. His home was at 69, Strathmore Ave, Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Herts Pictorial Coroner's Inquest Report
