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Private RONALD CLEAVE THORNE

Service Number: 5620654
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Devonshire Regiment

12th (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 June 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IIIA. M. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Fredrick and Rose Thorne; husband of Kathleen Thorne, of Landkey Newland, Devon.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ALL MANKIND THAT WE IN PEACE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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