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Serjeant PETER THORN

Service Number: 6898429
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Royal Rifle Corps

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 September 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY

VI. A. 17.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Daisy Thorn; husband of Margaret Thorn, of Whitley Bay, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Belgium) Belgium
Number of casualties: 800
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