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Fusilier EDWARD JOHN THOMPSON

Service Number: 6978732
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Irish Fusiliers

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 March 1942

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PEMBROKE MILITARY CEMETERY

Coll. grave 1. 3. 18.

Malta

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander and Emily Thompson, of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • Personal Inscription "GREATER LOVE THAN THIS HATH NO MAN"

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Buried or commemorated at

PEMBROKE MILITARY CEMETERY
Malta
Number of casualties: 596
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