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Sgt. William Thurlow
British Army 8th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Staines, Middlesex
Sergeant William Thurlow left Southampton for Gibraltar aboard the SS Caledonia in September 1914. Also on board was his son, Private Harry Thurlow. On 26th April 1915 he wrote to his wife to tell her that "we have lost our boy." In May 1915, he writes "It is terrible out here, you get no rest night or day." A letter from France in January 1918, states "We are having a lot of snow, I have not seen so much before. It is very cold up on top of this hill."
William survived the war and returned to his home in Staines. He died in 1946.

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