Name
Herbert Thorley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/05/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
10023
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WATFORD CEMETERY
F. 4. 198.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of the late William James and Annie Elizabeth (nee ROBINSON) THORLEY.
His parents married 6 July 1884 at St John’s, Trent Vale, Staffs. William died 1898 in the Stafford district aged 37; Annie died 1908 in the Stoke on Trent, Staffs, district aged 44.
Herbert was born 1893 in Stoke on Trent, and possibly baptised 2 November 1899 at Sts Mary and Chad, Longton, Staffs. He died in Watford, and was buried 7 May.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in Longton, with his [widowed] mother and four siblings and in the 1911 Census, a drawer in a pottery aged 17, he still lived in Longton, with his sister and brother-in-law.
Wartime Service
He originally enlisted 21 August 1912; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 19 December 1914, and was discharged 19 November 1915 due to sickness. The Silver War Badge was issued 2 March 1917.
He died on 2 May 1917 and is buried in Watford.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Herbert’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
