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Gunner WILLIAM RODWELL THORNBER

Service Number: 933870
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

113 Bty., 33 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 18 June 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

I. F. 25.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Sarah Thornber; husband of Ivy Irene Thornber, of Burnley, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DARLING HUSBAND BILL ALWAYS REMEMBERED. WIFE IVY
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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