1. Decoration: Silver War Badge

Gazette Date: 1918-05-02

Gazette Issue: WO 329/3240

Gazette Page: MPC/62

Citation: Badge No. 365949. Enlisted 4/6/15, Discharged 12/5/18. AO 265 1917 Sect B. Age 37.11, Served abroad.

Surname:	Thornton
Initials:	W.H.
Rank:	Lance Corporal
Army No.:	P/1452
Notes:	MFP. Awarded the 1915 Star, Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (1) France, 21/6/1915. Discharged Medically Unfit 12/5/1918. Wounded at Bethune. Later Metropolitan Police. Info from Pension Index Card:- Thornton, William Henry, MFP, L/Cpl, P/1452, 12/5/18 to discharge, VI.607, 11/M/275250. Stamp: Ad 1/5/18 at 27/6 from 13/5/18, Chelsea no. VV50.1262, received 15/5/18. William Henry Thornton.