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Lance Corporal GEORGE FREDERICK THORNTON

Service Number: 7904789
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

"B" Sqn. 17th/21st Lancers

Date of Death

Died 08 April 1943

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY

III. E. 15.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Frederick and Edith Rose Thornton, of Luton, Bedfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1551
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