Bertie John Thruston ⁸³⁶

  General Notes:

From CWGC:

Rank: Major
Date of Death: 22/11/1918
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment attd. West African Regiment, W.A.F.F.
Awards: D S O
Grave Reference: 2. D. 5.
Cemetery: Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery

Additional Information:
Legion of Honour.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Resided: 22 November 1918, 40 Westminster Mansions, Great Smith Street, Westminster, London. ¹³

2. He had an estate probated on 24 January 1919 in London. ¹³

Bertie married Gladys Edith Stacpoole, daughter of Richard George Stacpoole and Edith Maude D. Paul, in 1914 in Elham, Kent. (Gladys Edith Stacpoole was born in 1889 in Liverpool, Lancashire.)