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Major JOHN St. LEDGER THORNTON

Service Number: 137019
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Seaforth Highlanders

Date of Death

Died 18 August 1944

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY

V. D. 21.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the Revd. Claude Cyprian Thornton, M.A., and Alice May Thornton; husband of Joan Coulton-Thornton, of Oldcotes, Nottinghamshire. B.A., Hons. (Cantab.). Represented Great Britain at Hurdling in the Olympic Games, 1936.
  • Personal Inscription THESE WERE THE GLORY OF THEIR TIMES AND THEIR SEED SHALL REMAIN FOR EVER
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