Erwin Thiersch

Private Erwin Waldermar Thiersch was a soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 2 September 1895, in Zurich, Switzerland, the son of Ludwig August Samuel and Katherine Kay Thiersch (née Malcolm), of Marburg, Germany and Dundee, Scotland, respectively.Erwin Waldermar Thiersch, martinszeller-verband.de. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
While residing at Denmark Hill, London, Thiersch enlisted in May 1915, in the London Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. He died on 9 October 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, while attached to the 2nd Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Tyne Cot Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Thiersch, Erwin, cwgc.org. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
Category:1895 births
Category:1917 deaths
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Category:British people of Swiss descent
Category:British people of German descent
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Category:Tyne Cot Memorial
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