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Corporal WILLIE THORNTON

Service Number: 2917
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

1st/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 October 1916

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FONCQUEVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY

I. K. 18.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Dick and Annie Elizabeth Thornton, of Moorside, Drighlington, Bladford, Yorks; husband of Emily Gladys Thornton.
  • Personal Inscription "FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE" 1 COR. 15. V. 22
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Buried or commemorated at

FONCQUEVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 658
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