Name
Sidney Charles Clarence Thorne
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
242139
Gloucestershire Regiment
11th Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Sidney Thorne was born in the summer of 1894 at Abbots Langley. He was the younger of two children born to Richard and Harriet Thorne. At the time of the 1901 and 1911 Census the family lived at Breakspear Road, Abbots Langley. Richard was employed by the Metropolitan Asylum Board at the Leavesden Asylum, where he worked as a Laundry Man throughout this period, and in the 1911 Census Sidney was listed working as a Carpenter.
Sidney was recorded for the first time in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in December 1914, serving with the Hertfordshire Territorials. It is not known exactly when he transferred, but in the Roll of Honour for January 1917 he was recorded serving with the 11th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. He later transferred to the 5th Gloucester’s, and served with this unit through to the end of the War.
He was listed in the Absent Voter Records for Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919 serving with the 4th Gloucester’s and 5th Gloucester’s respectively. At the time he gave his address at 125 Breakspear Road, Abbots Langley.
Sidney Thorne survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly Hertfordshire Territorials; 4th, 5th Battalions Gloucestershire Regiment
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
