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Lance Corporal ROBERT THORBURN

Service Number: 71321
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

27th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 April 1916

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RIDGE WOOD MILITARY CEMETERY

II. P. 2.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of James and Isabella Thorburn, of Mordington, Berwickshire, Scotland.
  • Personal Inscription BETTER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS ASLEEP IN JESUS
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Buried or commemorated at

RIDGE WOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 621
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