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Leading Seaman WILLIAM RICHARD THORPE

Service Number: LT/JX265250
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Naval Patrol Service

H.M. Trawler De Rosa.

Date of Death

Died 18 February 1944

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CARDIFF (CATHAYS) CEMETERY

Sec. E.L. Grave 941.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry Watts Thorpe and Annie Thorpe; husband of Winifred May Thorpe, of Cardiff.
  • Personal Inscription A LOVING HUSBAND TRUE AND KIND A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY HE'S LEFT BEHIND
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