This name is on the St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(Edgar William Thornton)
(Thornton, Edgar William)
Service no 53929
Private, Middlesex Regiment, 19th Battalion
(formerly 67544, Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Killed in action at about age 18 on 5 August 1918
Born in Blackfriars, enlisted in Camberwell, lived in Kennington
Remembered at Contay British Cemetery, Contay, Somme, France and at St Mark's Church, London SE11
Information from the 1911 census
Edgar William Thornton was one of 8 surviving children of William Thornton, 48, a cab driver born in Holborn, London, and Helen Thornton, 50, born in Balls Pond, London. The family lived at 32 Tanswell St, SE1 (off Bayliss Road). The children on the census were:
Bessie Thornton, 21, an envelope bander
Caroline Thornton, 19, a envelope folder
Thomas Thornton, 17, a porter
Arthur Thornton, 14, an errand boy
Edgar Thornton, 11
Louisa Thornton, 9
Ethel Thornton, 5
Arthur, Edgar and Louisa were born in Southwark, the rest of the children in Lambeth.