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Private FREDERICK THORNTON

Service Number: 174711
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Machine Gun Corps

2nd Coy.

Date of Death

Died 09 April 1917

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS MILITARY CEMETERY, THELUS

III. C. 11.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of John and Mary Thornton of Hamilton, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription INTO THY HANDS O LORD I COMMEND MY SPIRIT R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS MILITARY CEMETERY, THELUS
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 737
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