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Second Lieutenant PATRICK CROFTON HORTON

Service Number: 156645
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 August 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IVA. G. 14.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Thomas Horton and Katherine Horton.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR GALLANT AND RADIANT PATRICK. MOTHER, TOM AND DICK
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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