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Lance Serjeant JOHN FRANK THORNTON

Service Number: 2031148
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

1 Div. Sigs.

Date of Death

Died 16 February 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ANZIO WAR CEMETERY

III, J, 2.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Sarah Alice Thornton; husband of Dorothy Jean Thornton, of Sale, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"
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