Name
Charles Thrussell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/08/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
204338
East Surrey Regiment
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 34.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary's Church Memorial, Kings Walden,
We are not aware of any Ley Green memorial
Pre War
Recorded as born in Kings Walden and enlisting Hitchin.
Charles worked for Stopsley Holes Farm and later for Mr Farr of Parsonage Farm in Kings Walden. He was married with a young daughter.
Wartime Service
He was formerly 9096, with the Bedfordshire Regiment.
The Hertfordshire Express of 25th August 1917, reported his death as being on the 15th August 1917, not as recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, as has the headline "Killed in His Return, Ley Green Soldier who had harvest leave.
The article also reveals that he had been home for 'harvest leave' a few weeks before his death and that a comrade had written that "death took place half-an-hour after being wounded." Sadly his widow had heard from only the day before when he wrote asking her to send him a parcel.
His death was probably in the trenches and before he got proper treatment, because his recorded as killed in action.
Additional Information
Conflicting dates of death.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
