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Private HERBERT GEORGE THORPE

Service Number: 27402
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 May 1918

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.2

I. A. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Richard and Sarah Annie Thorpe, of Bear St., Nayland, Colchester.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY FROM HIS FATHER BROTHER & SISTERS. AGED 20.
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Buried or commemorated at

DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.2
Somme France
Number of casualties: 462
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