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Private DOUGLAS WILLIAM THOMPSON

Service Number: 6297987
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 May 1944

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KLAGENFURT WAR CEMETERY

4. A. 4.

Austria

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur Earnest and Ellen (Nelly) Thompson, of Gravesend, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription WHEN THE DAWN BREAKS WE WILL MEET. MUM
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Buried or commemorated at

KLAGENFURT WAR CEMETERY
Austria
Number of casualties: 601
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