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Driver WILLIAM THORNBER

Service Number: 446340
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

519th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 09 December 1918

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

Q. 163.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Martha Thornber; husband of Lilian T. Thornber, of 15, North Oliver St., Birkenhead.
  • Personal Inscription HIS DUTY DONE AT REST
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Buried or commemorated at

CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 2411
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