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Lance Corporal HERBERT JAMES THORNCROFT

Service Number: 310735
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

3rd King's Own Hussars

Date of Death

Died 02 November 1942

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

XXIII. D. 16.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frank and Caroline Thorncroft; husband of Edith Kate Thorncroft, of East Cholderton, Hampshire.
  • Personal Inscription EVER NEAR US THOUGH UNSEEN THE IMMORTAL SPIRITS TREAD FOR ALL THE UNIVERSE IS LIFE: THERE IS NO DEATH
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