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Gunner CHARLES ALFRED VICTOR THORNTON

Service Number: 1445201
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

215 Bty., 57 H.A.A. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 11 March 1941

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GOSPORT (ANN'S HILL) CEMETERY

Plot 189. Grave 43.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Francis Edward and Mary Jane Kate Thornton, of Gosport.
  • Personal Inscription THE PATH OF DUTY WAS THE WAY TO GLORY
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Buried or commemorated at

GOSPORT (ANN'S HILL) CEMETERY
Hampshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 290
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