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Serjeant RONALD WILLIAM THORNTON

Service Number: 6472839
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.

46th Regt.

Date of Death

Died 19 January 1944

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY

V, A, 21.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Christopher and May Christiana Thornton; husband of Rosamund Joyce Thornton, of Beckenham, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription MANY A HEARTACHE OFTEN A TEAR BUT ALWAYS A MEMORY OF ONE WE LOVED SO DEAR

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Buried or commemorated at

MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2049
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