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Lance Serjeant DOUGLAS HUGH THORPE

Service Number: 2665381
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 November 1945

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CASERTA WAR CEMETERY

VIII, C, 17.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry Francis and Eva Taylor Thorpe, of Bexleyheath, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE: THEIRS IS THE GLORY
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Buried or commemorated at

CASERTA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 769
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