Major JOHN St. LEDGER THORNTON
Service Number: 137019
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Seaforth Highlanders
Date of Death
Died 18 August 1944
Age 33 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of the Revd. Claude Cyprian Thornton, M.A., and Alice May Thornton; husband of Joan Coulton-Thornton, of Oldcotes, Nottinghamshire. B.A., Hons. (Cantab.). Represented Great Britain at Hurdling in the Olympic Games, 1936.
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