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Gunner BENJAMIN THORPE

Service Number: 1140854
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

78 (The Duke of Lancaster`s Own Yeomanry) Medium Regt.

Date of Death

Died 04 October 1944

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY

IV. C. 16.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred and Emma Thorpe; husband of Mary Thorpe, of Netherfield, Nottinghamshire.
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Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1638
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