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Colonel DOUGLAS GLENDINNING THORBURN

Service Number: 11477
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

Cdg. 2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 July 1943

Age 46 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SYRACUSE WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

III. H. 1.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Military Cross and Bar
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Alice Edgar Thorburn; husband of Barbara Thorburn, of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
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Buried or commemorated at

SYRACUSE WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1067
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