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Able Seaman WILLIAM THORPE

Service Number: P/SSX 31731
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Halsted

Date of Death

Died 09 May 1944

Age 50 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WALSALL (RYECROFT) CEMETERY

Sec. 2. Grave 172.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Ethel M. Thorpe, of Pleck, Walsall.
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Buried or commemorated at

WALSALL (RYECROFT) CEMETERY
Staffordshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 177
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