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Sapper THOMAS RANKIN THORBURN

Service Number: 414718
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

569th (Devon) Army Troops Coy.

Date of Death

Died 04 April 1918

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

A. 220.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Eldest son of William and Amelia Thorburn, of Zambesi, Blantyre; husband of Sarah Atkinson Thorburn, of Burnbrae Farm. Burnbank, Hamilton. Lanarkshire.
  • Personal Inscription A CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOREVER ENGLAND
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Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 3066
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