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Corporal HARRY THORLEY

Service Number: 1888318
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

156 Bomb Disposal Platoon

Date of Death

Died 24 July 1945

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MILAN WAR CEMETERY

I. B. 7.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of May Thorley, of Congleton, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE LIES WITH ENGLAND'S HEROES IN THE WATCHFUL CARE OF GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

MILAN WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 420
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