Original member of The Royal Montreal Regiment.
The unit was attached to the Regina Rifle Regiment.
Killed in action at the Leopold canal. Being wounded by a bullet to the arm Thornicroft was patched up by Captain Schwob and after that ordered to secure himself behind the lines. On his way back he came encounter with a German soldier. The wounded and unarmed Canadian stoot no change and was shot dead.
2 Brothers in the Military. Howard Edwin served with the RCAF overseas C/19120 and Edward George V/7625 served with the Royal Canadian Navy.
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Photograph temporary burial: Eeklo Archive, Belgium.
Info from War Diary and Service Records: LAC (Library Archive Canada).
Photographs Regimental and Division patch: JM-Militaria.
Photograph headstone: Michael van de Velde.
