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Major EDWARD LIONEL THWAITES

Service Number: 118448
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

154 (The Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 17 November 1943

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEROS WAR CEMETERY

1. B. 6.

Greece

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Leila Etheridge Thwaites, of Bolton, Lancashire.
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Buried or commemorated at

LEROS WAR CEMETERY
Greece
Number of casualties: 183
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