Remembering Today Casualty Leading Aircraftman THURSTON, PERCY DOWSON Service Number 1445340 Died 25/05/1943 Aged 30 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Husband of Joan Thurston, of Horndean. Buried at SOUTHAMPTON OLD CREMATORIUM Location: Hampshire, United Kingdom Number of casualties: 79 Cemetery/memorial reference: Panel 6.
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 Name: Percy D Thurston Death Age: 30 Birth Date: abt 1913 Registration Date: Jun 1943 Registration district: York Inferred County: Yorkshire East Riding Volume: 9c Page: 931 1939 England and Wales Register Name: Percy D Thurston Gender: Male Marital Status: Single Birth Date: 26 Mar 1913 Residence Year: 1939 Address: 38 Residence Place: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England Occupation: (Heavy Wkr) Foreman Wholesale Grocery & Provision ?? Schedule Number: 19 Sub Schedule Number: 2 Enumeration District: EBCY Registration district: 90/1 Household Members: Name Alfred W Thurston Percy D Thurston Edith M Walker Berkeley Miles Percy Dowson Thurston Birth: Jan 1913 - Hampshire, England Death: 25 May 1943 - York, Yorkshire, England Marriage: Sep 1940 - Portsmouth, Hampshire, England Spouse: Joan Miller TD England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 Name: Percy D Thurston Mother's Maiden Name: Chidgey Registration Year: 1913 Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar Registration district: Portsmouth Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District Inferred County: Hampshire Volume: 2b Page: 780
1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION Thurston Household (4 People) 38 Amberley Road, Portsmouth C.B., Hampshire NAME DOB OCCUPATION Alfred W Thurston 26 Dec 1878 Private Caterer C & WO's Mess, RN Base (widower) Percy D Thurston 26 Mar 1913 Foreman Wholesale Grocery & Provisions (Heavy Work) Edith M Walker 05 Dec 1907 Unpaid Domestic Duties Berkeley Miles 07 Oct 1890 Officers Cook i/c RN HMS Vernon Both Alfred and Berkeley Miles are described as 'RN Pensioner'.
