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Sapper JAMES THORNTON

Service Number: 107423
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

3rd Signal Coy.

Date of Death

Died 07 June 1916

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

II. B. 154.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Margaret Malone Thornton and the late Patrick Thornton, of Edinburgh; husband of Margaret Cranston Richardson Thornton, of 30, West Blackhall St., Greenock.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD
Nord France
Number of casualties: 4580
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