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Lance Corporal FRANCIS ALAN THURSTING

Service Number: 7685440
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Corps of Military Police

Date of Death

Died 31 May 1940

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SALE CEMETERY

Sec. A.B. Grave 7349.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Francis Edward and Olive May Thursting; husband of Vera Thursting, of Sale. His brother Edward John also died on service.
  • Personal Inscription HIS BROTHER EDWARD JOHN GUNNER, ROYAL ARTILLERY, KILLED 24:3 1945 AGE 18 IS BURIED IN GERMANY
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