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Corporal RICHARD THORN

Service Number: 2979
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Rifle Brigade

"A" Coy. 2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 July 1915

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

Y FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, BOIS-GRENIER

L. 27.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard and Sarah Thorn, of 42, Laitwood Rd., Balham, London.
  • Personal Inscription NEARER MY GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

Y FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, BOIS-GRENIER
Nord France
Number of casualties: 837
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