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Private WILLIAM THORNTON

Service Number: 531811
Regiment & Unit/Ship

London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)

P.W.O. Civil Service

Date of Death

Died 31 January 1919

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY

IV. E. 20.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard Thornton, of 53, Rothbury St., Scarborough.
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Buried or commemorated at

DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 1269
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