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.
Éloi Laurent Despeaux (14 October 1761 – 23 October 1856) commanded a combat infantry division during the French Revolution.
 He joined the French Royal Army in 1776 and became a non-commissioned officer by 1791 when he reentered civilian life.
 The following year he joined a volunteer battalion and fought at Jemappes.
 He was badly wounded at Famars in May 1793 and was appointed general of brigade in the "Army of the North" in September that year.
 After being wounded again he was promoted general of division in March 1794.
Prince Stepan Khilkoff was the eldest son of Prince Alexander Jacobovich Khilkoff.
 He had a distinguished military career, with his portrait in the hall of heroes in the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace.
 As a Lieutenant General, he fought in the bloody battle of Austerlitz, and at Gutstadt, Heilsberg and Friedland; in the latter battle he was badly wounded in his right side.
Jacques Philippe Bonnaud or Bonneau (11 September 1757 – 30 March 1797) commanded a French combat division in a number of actions during the French Revolutionary Wars.
 He enlisted in the French Royal Army as cavalryman in 1776 and was a non-commissioned officer in 1789.
 He became a captain in the 12th Chasseurs à Cheval Regiment in 1792.
 The unit fought at Valmy, Jemappes, Aldenhoven, Neerwinden, Raismes, Caesar's Camp and Wattignies, and he was wounded twice.
 In January 1794 he was promoted to general officer.
 In April 1794, he reluctantly accepted command of a division that had been cut to pieces at Villers-en-Cauchies and Troisvilles, and this at a time when failed generals often were sent to the guillotine.
 He led his troops at Courtrai, Tourcoing and in the invasion of the Dutch Republic.
 He fought in the War in the Vendée the following year, briefly leading the "Army of the Coasts of Cherbourg".
 In the Rhine Campaign of 1796 he led a cavalry division in combat at Amberg, Würzburg and Limburg.
 He was badly wounded in the latter action and never recovered, dying at Bonn six months later.
 BONNEAU is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 6.
The Battle of Cambrai (called the Battle of Cambrai, 1917 by the Battlefield Nomenclature Committee; also sometimes referred to as the First Battle of Cambrai) was a British attack followed by the biggest German counter-stroke against the BEF since 1914, in the First World War.
 Cambrai, in the département of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, was an important supply point for the German "Siegfriedstellung" (known to the British as the Hindenburg Line) and capture of the town and the nearby Bourlon Ridge would threaten the rear of the German line to the north.
 Major General Henry Tudor, Commander, Royal Artillery (CRA) of the 9th (Scottish) Division, advocated the use of new artillery-infantry techniques on his sector of the front.
 During preparations, J. F. C. Fuller, a staff officer with the Tank Corps, looked for places to use tanks for raids.
 General Julian Byng, commander of the British Third Army, decided to combine both plans.
Vice-Admiral Aiskew Paffard Hollis ("c." 1764 – 23 June 1844) was a Royal Navy officer of the early nineteenth century who is best known for his service in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
 Born in the 1760s, Hollis entered the Navy in 1774 and served during the American Revolutionary War, seeing action at the Battle of Ushant and the French Revolutionary Wars in which he was badly wounded at the Glorious First of June.
 In 1801, as the captain of HMS "Thames" Hollis was heavily engaged at the Second Battle of Algeciras and in the Napoleonic Wars he served in a number of commissions and all major theatres.
Jean Barthélemy Claude Toussaint Darmagnac (1 November 1766 – 12 December 1855) became a French division commander during the Napoleonic Wars.
 In 1791 he joined a volunteer battalion and soon became a captain.
 He fought with the 32nd Line Infantry Demi-Brigade against the Austrians in Italy.
 He participated in the French campaign in Egypt and Syria, being promoted to lead the regiment after distinguishing himself at the Battle of the Pyramids.
 He was badly wounded at Acre and promoted to general of brigade in 1801.
 Darmagnac fought at Austerlitz in 1805 and led the Paris guard in 1806–1807.
 Going to Spain, he was wounded at Medina de Rioseco and became a general of division in 1808.
 After serving as provincial governor, he assumed command of a combat division at Vitoria, the Pyrenees, the Bidassoa, the Nivelle, the Nive, Orthez, and Toulouse.
 After holding interior commands under the Bourbon Restoration he retired in 1831.
 His surname is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 36.
The 1954 Shoreditch and Finsbury by-election was held on 21 October 1954 after the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Ernest Thurtle.
 It was retained by the Labour candidate, Victor Collins.
The Battle of Ebeltoft was a naval battle between a Swedish and a Danish/Dutch fleet, during the Dano-Swedish War of 1658 to 1660.
 The allied fleet was ordered to secure a troop transport fleet to the Swedish-controlled island Fyn.
 Eight Swedish frigates attacked the fleet and took the allies by surprise.
 After a long fight one Dutch ship exploded, the rest of the Danish/Dutch ships were captured and the transport fleet was destroyed.
 The Danish captain was badly wounded and died during the battle.
Brigadier-General John Tyson Wigan, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (July 1877 – November 1952) was a senior British Army officer and later a Conservative Party politician.
 He served with the Desert Mounted Corps during World War I, and was wounded in action three times during campaigning at the Battle of Gallipoli and during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.
 He had previously been badly wounded in the Second Boer War.

Question: In what what year did the battle in which Ernest Thurtle was badly wounded occur?
Answer: 1917