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Trooper ROBERT JOHN MARTIN THORPE

Service Number: 7939719
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

23rd Hussars

Date of Death

Died 27 June 1944

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY

I. B. 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Catherine Thorpe, of Glasgow; husband of Agnes Thorpe, of Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription TOO FAR AWAY THY GRAVE TO SEE BUT NOT TOO FAR TO THINK OF THEE
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Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 377
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