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Sapper EDMUND THORNTON

Service Number: 2034078
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

54 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 25 October 1940

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

N. 38.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edmund and Catherine Thornton, of Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription THE TRUEST SON THE WORLD COULD HOLD; A CHEERY SMILE AND A HEART OF GOLD
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Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 2865
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