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Private GEORGE THORNTON

Service Number: 37564
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lincolnshire Regiment

4th Labour Coy.

Date of Death

Died 31 August 1917

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BLEUET FARM CEMETERY

I. C. 40.

Belgium

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (25629) 43rd Coy. Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Henry and Eliza Thornton.
  • Personal Inscription SLEEP ON BELOVED
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Buried or commemorated at

BLEUET FARM CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 452
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