Captain Earnest Fuller Thurgood

Cheshire Regiment
Killed in action · 31 May 1918

Captain Earnest Fuller Thurgood served alongside Charles Johnson as an officer of the 16th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment during the First World War.

He appears among the officers of the 16th Cheshires identified in Charles’s photograph of the battalion’s officers.

Later service

Thurgood later transferred to another battalion of the Cheshire Regiment. By 1918 he was serving with the 9th Battalion.

He was killed in action on 31 May 1918.

From the 9th Battalion war diary

The following extract from the war diary of the 9th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment records Thurgood and other officers during the battalion’s time at Ouderdom on 30 April 1918.

Extract from war diary of 9th Bn, 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment

OUDERDOM – 30th April 1918

Our guns were active from about 12.30 a.m to 1.30 a.m and again from 2.30 a.m to dawn.  Quiet day.  Warning order received that the Brigade would relieve the right sector of the 21^st Division probably on the night 1/2^nd May. 4.30 pm Enemy shelled the batteries in the vicinity of the battalion very heavily and followed this by a shrapnel shoot about 6.30 p.m.  Capt E.F. THURGOOD, Capt A.J. GATELEY, Lieuts. G.W. DAY, W.W. UNDERWOOD, 2^nd Lieut G.E. WALTHO and 18. O. Ranks reinforcements reported their arrival.

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Sources

Cheshire Military Museum Great War Blog — 9th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment war diary.

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