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Private PERCY THORNTON

Service Number: 24084
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Machine Gun Corps

No. 3 Coy.

Date of Death

Died 07 June 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MESSINES RIDGE (N.Z.) MEMORIAL

Belgium

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Ellen Nevill (formerly Thornton), of Grey St., West, Onehunga, Auckland. Native of Northern Wairoa, Napier.
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MESSINES RIDGE (N.Z.) MEMORIAL
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 828
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