WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 268756 | Private George Thornton | Age 24 ‘B’ Company, 16th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) |
Born 1893 |
| SDiGW | Enlisted Bingham | ||
| Killed in action on 10/11/1917 | No known grave Commemorated at Tyne Cot memorial |
Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A | |
| 16th Bn SF War Diary |
“9th November Casualties –
4 wounded. Lieut. A.H.Strutt re-joined the Battalion and was posted to B Company 10th November The Battalion relieved the 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters in the right sub-section Polderhoek section. Whilst the relief was in progress 5 men were killed and 6 wounded. Total casualties the day 3 killed; 8 wounded. 11th November Sgt. J W. Barkes awarded a bar to his Military medal for gallantry and devotion to duty whilst on a working party on October 22nd. During the day enemy aeroplanes were very active making low reconnaissance of our line.” George Thornton was killed on 10th November 1917 at Polderhoek and which was likely to have occurred during the relief of the 17th Battalion that took place on that date. |
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| CWCG | Son of Mrs. H. Thornton, of 33, Spring Gardens, Long Acre, Bingham; husband of Mrs. M. Buttress (formerly Thornton), of Saxondale, Bingham, Nottingham | ||
| Register of Effects | George’s back pay of £4.13s.1d was sent to his widow Martha
on 9th March 1918. |
George’s War Gratuity of £3.0s.0d was sent to his widow Martha on 3rd December 1919. | |
No army records on Ancestry.com. Medal card copied.
CWGC and Census have different names for mother! Could have been a mis-reading of Mrs M.
Family history etc
| 268756 | Private George Thornton | ||
| 1893 | Born Aslockton |
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| Census 1901 | Living in Aslockton with: Father: Herbert, b 1865 Mother: Mary, b 1864 in Bingham Siblings: Sarah, 1892 Ernest, b1896 Charlotte, b 1898 |
Carter on farm |
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| Census 1911 | Living in Union Street, Bingham with: Widowed mother, Mary Siblings: Sarah Ernest Charlotte Arthur, b 1902 |
Working as Farm labourer Farm Labourer |
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| GRO | George married Martha Cowdell at Shelford Church on April 28th 1915. By then she had left the family home to work as a domestic servant to the Lamin farming family of Saxondale. The 1911 census [completed for the first time by the head of the household] has Martha listed by her father but crossed out [by the enumerator]. | The marriage certificate shows George as a waggoner. And Martha’s father as a Carter. | |
| Grantham Journal 9th November 1918 | The family placed this memorial notice in the Grantham Journal in 1918. A second notice was placed in 1919 (far right) |
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| GRO | On the 5th April 1919 Martha married William H Buttress at
Mayfield Grove Chapel [near Long Eaton], He was an agricultural labourer
living on Long Acre Row, Bingham. In 1911 he lived with his widowed mother
in Aslockton. Martha’s address was given as 3 St Anne’s Well
Road, Nottingham [near the city centre]. The chapel was Primitive Methodist,
but quite why they went so far away to be married is unexplained. Perhaps
it was to avoid family difficulties. The lived in Saxondale. Martha and William had a daughter Lucy in 1921. |
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