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Corporal ROBERT THORNTON

Service Number: 3460574
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Ulster Rifles

2nd Bn. The London Irish Rifles

Date of Death

Died 02 November 1943

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY

VIII. B. 12.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Dinah Thornton, of Blackburn, Lancashire; husband of Betty A. Thornton, of Ewood, Blackburn.
  • Personal Inscription THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD, NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN. "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN"
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