Spencer Edgar Thornley
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Spencer Edgar Thornley known as Edgar was born in 1896 and was the only son of Spencer Hall a manager in a lace warehouse and Edith Joyce Thornley née Griffiths , of 36 Pullman Road, Sneinton Dale, Nottingham. His father Spencer Hall was born in 1871 at Nottingham, his mother Edith Joyce Griffiths was born in 1875 also at Nottingham, they were married in 1895 their marriage was recorded in the Nottingham Registration district, they had just the one child Spence Edgar. In the 1911 census the family are living at 36 Sneinton Hermitage, Sneinton, Nottingham and are shown as Spencer Hall Thornley 40 yrs a manager in a lace warehouse, he is living with his wife Edith Joyce 36 yrs and their son Spencer Edgar 15 yrs a scholar.
Private Spencer Edgar Thornley, enlisted at Nottingham he served with the 8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, he was killed in action on 21st October 1917. He is buried Monchy British Cemetery, Monchy-le-Preux, France. (grave ref I.O.16) 'Edgar Thornley, 16th Royal Fusiliers, has been wounded in the arm and head' (Mundella Magazine, Christmas 1916). 'Edgar Thornley has been wounded for the second time, and is now in a Convalescent Home at Dover' (Mundella Magazine, July 1917).
Mundella Magazine, Christmas 1917, In Memoriam: 'During the term, two of the cheeriest souls that I met during a six years’ sojourn at Mundella, have passed beyond the Great Divide, leaving many friends and comrades the sadder for their loss ... Edgar Thornley and I entered Mundella as raw recruits together in 1908 – and we always knew him as ‘Chick’. He, too, was another friend who had nothing but a smile or a joke for everybody, and his unfailing good nature was everywhere, in the classroom and on the football field alike. Of late years I have seen but little of him but his happy smile still remains firmly fixed in my remembrance. (author COB)' In memoriam 'Nottingham Evening Post,' 21st October 1918. “THORNLEY. – In loving memory of Edgar Thornley, Royal Fusiliers, killed in action October 21st, 1917, beloved only son of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Thornley, 78 Pullman-road, Nottingham. “THORNLEY. – In loving memory of Pte. Edgar Thornley, Royal Fusiliers, killed in action October 21st, 1917, beloved grandson of Mrs. Griffiths, 152 Harlaxton-drive. “THORNLEY. – In affectionate memory of Pte. Edgar Thornley, Royal Fusiliers, killed in action October 21st, 1917. Sadly missed. – Elsie.”
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