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Lieutenant DESMOND BROOKING THORNTON

Service Number: 153263
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Sussex Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 June 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XIV. J. 16.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 9th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frank Brooking Thornton, and of Beatrice Louisa Thornton, of St. John's Wood, London.
  • Personal Inscription IN PROUD & UNFADING MEMORY OF MY SON DESMOND
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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