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Major JOSEPH THORNE

Service Number: 15832
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 May 1940

Age 40 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CASSEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Row B. Grave 21.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Cornelius Thorne and of Elizabeth Thorne (nee Gosse); husband of Marjorie Catherine Thorne, of Southam, Warwickshire.
  • Personal Inscription "HE LED THEM WITH A FAITHFUL HEART AND RULED PRUDENTLY WITH ALL HIS POWER"
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