World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Thomas Tudor Thorp
Forename(s):
Thomas Tudor
Surname:
Thorp
Initial(s):
T T
Service Number:
Officer
Rank:
2nd Lieutenant
Regiment:
Royal Field Artillery, 83rd Brigade, 'D' Battery
Died:
16/08/1917
Aged:
20
Buried:
Tyne Cot Cemetery
Service History:
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery, 16 June 1916. Served with the Expeditionary Force in France & Flanders from the following month, taking part in the later Battles of the Somme in September & November 1916.
Thorp was killed in action near Glencorse Wood, on the Ypres-Menin Road, 16 August 1917.
His Commanding Officer wrote;
'He was a most valuable officer, & one of the most fearless that I have ever known. During the last months, on several occasions, he had shown remarkable coolness & bravery under fire, & his conduct was an example to his section. When killed he was acting as Forward Observation Officer & had sent down some most valuable information during the morning, which enabled us to disperse an enemy counter-attack.'
(Source: 'UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-18'; Part 3; Page 267)
Background:
Born on 5 June, 1897, at Alnwick, Northumberland, the eldest son of Thomas Alder Thorp, of Bondgate Hall, Alnwick, by his wife, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Captain Allen Peat.
Educated at Aysgarth School & Charterhouse.
(Source: 'UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-18'; Part 3; Page 267)
Cousin of 2nd Lieutenant Robert Oakley Vavasour Thorp, MC (Northumberland Fusiliers, 1st Battalion, attached 64th Trench Mortar Battery) who was killed in action on 22 March 1918.
Local Memorial:
Alnwick War Memorial
