Name
Cornelius Thorne (MC)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/09/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
East Surrey Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 6 B and 6 C
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 29 Aug 1892 in Shanghai, China son of Cornelius and Elizabeth Frances (Gosse) Thorne of Maison Rouge, Sidcup, Kent. Educated at Haileybury College 1905-11 and Clare College, Cambridge.
Wartime Service
He entered France on 27 Jul 1915. In Sep 1915 he was serving near Fricourt when he heard that his brother Marlborough, from the same regiment, had been shot and killed while on a mission to bomb a sniper in no-man’s land. Three search parties had failed to find his body. He decided to go and look for him and was able to find him only yards from the enemy line. He carried his body back to the allied lines and for this action was awarded the MC. He was killed in action a year later at the Somme by a sniper’s bullet.
Additional Information
Brother of 2nd Lieutenant Marlborough Thorne who was killed in action on 27 Sep 1915 in France and who is also commemorated on these memorials and of Major Joseph Thorne who was killed in action on 29 May 1940 in France.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
