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Guardsman HENRY ALFRED GEORGE THORNTON

Service Number: 2620282
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

Date of Death

Died 18 June 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY

33A. B. 4.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry James Thornton and Florence Charlotte Thornton, of Bermondsey, London.
  • Personal Inscription A TRAGIC END TO A ONCE HAPPY LIFE GOD TOOK YOU FROM US AND FROM STRIFE TO PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
Surrey United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 7048
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