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Chief Engine Room Artificer JOHN THORNTON

Service Number: 1025EA
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Naval Reserve

H.M.S. "Acacia"

Date of Death

Died 07 April 1919

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEIRUT WAR CEMETERY

272.

Lebanese Republic

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Ann Alice Thornton, of 16, West Wear St., Sunderland; husband of Ann Isabel Thornton, of Kennington Road, London.
  • Personal Inscription LOVINGLY REMEMBERED BY HIS WIFE AND SADLY MISSED BY HIS DEAR LITTLE SON JACK
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