ALFRED THORNETT was serving as a Driver with the 45th Battery, 3C Reserve Brigade, The Royal Field Artillery when he died, probably from illness, on 20th April 1918. He was aged 26 and is buried in Portsmouth Milton Cemetery. 

He was the son of Alfred and Minnie Thornett of Ditchley Road, Charlbury and had worked as a farm labourer. In the summer of 1914 he had married Emily Smith in Monmouth. He died in the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Corsham, Hampshire. His younger brother George was killed in action in 1918.

Steve Kingsford