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Sergeant DOUGLAS THORNTON

Service Number: 1055021
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

138 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 26 July 1942

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VIRE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot L, Grave 3.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Margaret Thornton; husband of Elsie Thornton, of Bradford, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription DEARLY LOVED
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Buried or commemorated at

VIRE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4
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