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Lance Corporal WILLIAM THORNTON

Service Number: 16058
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

10th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 July 1916

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETRETAT CHURCHYARD

II. D. 12A.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Ellen Thornton, of 20, Mountjoy St., Londonderry.
  • Personal Inscription SLEEP ON DEAR HUSBAND THY LABOURS O'ER ELLEN
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Buried or commemorated at

ETRETAT CHURCHYARD
Seine-Maritime France
Number of casualties: 264
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