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1891 Nov 9. born Wellington, Somerset (in this registration district, but in Hemyock, Devon, about 5 miles from Wellington). Son of Henry Grey Thornton and Minnie Mary Tucker. His father was a wealthy farmer
1901 census at a boarding school in Taunton . A Brother Richard there too which will be RG Thornton. His mother had just died and his father was living in Lamb Hotel, Dulverton
1911 census I cannot find his father's first family, but father and new wife are at Warmore House, Dulverton. Ancestry tree. His brother Percy went to Australia
1915 Mar 23. West Somerset; Charles Henry Thornton to be Second Lieutenant.
1916 Jun 1. Yeomanry 2nd Lt. C. H. Thornton to be Lt, with precedence as from 1st June 1916, with seniority next below Lt. G. E. Neilson. 1st Aug. 1917
1917 Jul 1. Yeomanry . The undermentioned Lts. to have pay and allowances of that rank. C. H. Thornton.
1918 Aug 11. West Somerset. Lt. C.. H. Thornton to be Capt.
1920 Oct 22 Joined ADRIC with service no 819. Served in D Coy in Galway. Oddly there is a note of promotion to Section Leader on 18 Sep 1920. A month before he is down as joining
1920 Dec 8 Permitted to resign
1921 Dec 15. West Somerset. Relinquishes his commission Capt C H Thornton
1925 Jun 20. Leaves UK for Canada. He is given as born Hemyock, (a small village in Devon, about 5 miles from Wellington, Somerset). His father is H Thornton of Warmore House, Dulverton, Somerset. He was stamped in as a "landed immigrant"
1935 Jul 26 Marries in New York to Dorothy
1936 Aug 14 Arrrives in Laredo Texas from Mexico City where he has been living
1942. He registers for draft
1944 May 31. Applies fro Naturalisation. He is a Machine Shop Helper
1955 Jan 30 Died USA
The Montclair Times 03 Feb 1955, "C.H. THOTNTON, ENGINEER Funeral services for Charles Henry Thornton of 192 Inwood Ave., Upper Montclair, mining engineer, archeologist, humanitarian and tree surgeon were held yesterday morning at the Home for Services, 56 Park St.The Rev. Dr. Joseph C. Dickson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Upper Montclair, officiated. Interment was in Union Cemetery, Hackettstown. Mr. Thornton died Sunday in Mountainside Hospital after a short illness. He was 63. Born in Hemyock, Somerset, England, Mr. Thornton was the great grandson of Henry Sykes Thornton (1760-1815), a director of the Bank of England, who was associated with Wilberforce in the English movement abolishing slavery. He studied mining in Australia. He spent the entire four years of World War I in France, serving as a captain of the West Somerset Yeomanry of the British Army, He was wounded in battle, following which he served in the British Counter-Intelligence Service. Mr. Thornton was a mining engineer in Australia and Canada before making many archeological expeditions to Mexico. He has lived in Upper Montclair nineteen years conducting a business as a tree surgeon.He has been an American citizen for ten and a half years.... Mr. Thornton is survived by his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Thornton, whose work as an artist has been exhibited in this community, a stepson John Thornton; a brother, Richard Thornton of England.."