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Gunner HORACE WILLIAM THORPE

Service Number: 5879560
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

8 Coast Regt.

Date of Death

Died 05 October 1942

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY

Brit. Sec. L. C. 2.

Japan

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Emily Elizabeth Thorpe, of Northampton. His brother Ronald Clive also died on service.
  • Personal Inscription SUNSHINE PASSES, SHADOWS FALL, LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE OUTLIVE ALL
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