In what what year did the battle in which Ernest Thurtle was badly wounded occur?
Ernest Thurtle Thurtle worked as an accountant and salesman. He saw service in the army in World War I and was badly wounded at the Battle of Cambrai. In 1912 he married Dorothy Lansbury, daughter of George Lansbury, leader of the Labour Party in the 1930s.
Battle of Le Grand Fayt The Battle of Le Grand Fayt was a rearguard action fought at Grand-Fayt by the British Expeditionary Force during the Great Retreat on the Western Front in 1914.