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Apprentice Tradesman THOMAS ARTHUR THORNTON

Service Number: B/3910
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 09 November 1940

Age 16 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEACHLEY MILITARY CEMETERY

Grave 7.

United Kingdom

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Photographer: Graham Sacker

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur Percy and Frances Ivy Maud Thornton, of Rainham, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN. HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS COMRADES
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Buried or commemorated at

BEACHLEY MILITARY CEMETERY
Gloucestershire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 104
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