Thomas Tolhurst
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Wife: Mrs Tolhurst
Address: 53 Carisbrooke Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Twice wounded, now again at the Front. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.
Published: June 1916
This man was in the 1911 census at 53 Carisbrooke Road, a 3 room apartment within the house, as Thomas E. Tolhurst, age 33, milkman worker, born Silverhill, Hastings. His wife Gertrude, 32, born Camden Town, was a lodging house keeper. They had two children and two servants. He had married, 1905, Hastings, Gertrude Mary Eaton.
He was an infant in the 1881 census at Battle Road, Hollington, St Leonards, where father Thomas was a carter and agricultural labourer.
His wife was probably the woman who died in 1953 at Clapham Common, However, a Gertrude M. Tolworth married, 1927, Wandsworth, George E.H. Jamison.