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Gunner HARRY THORNTON

Service Number: 75093
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

351st Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1917

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

XIV. C. 19.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Barbara and the late Edwin Thornton, of Thornley, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription PEACE PERFECT PEACE DEEPLY MOURNED BY HIS SORROWING MOTHER TWO SISTERS AND BROTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 10786
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