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Leading Seaman JAMES ALFRED THORBURN

Service Number: C/J78615
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M. Trawler Cape Palliser

Date of Death

Died 10 August 1940

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CAMBRIDGE CITY CEMETERY

Grave 4920.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Winifred Beatrice Thorburn, of Cambridge.
  • Personal Inscription ''HOME IS THE SAILOR, HOME FROM THE SEA"
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Buried or commemorated at

CAMBRIDGE CITY CEMETERY
Cambridgeshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 1026
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