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Private EDWIN THORP

Service Number: 14509742
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

2nd Bn. The Glasgow Highlanders

Date of Death

Died 10 September 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GENT CITY CEMETERY

18. C. 9.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harry and Ada Thorp, of Bradford, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS TODAY FOR OUR TOMORROW
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Buried or commemorated at

GENT CITY CEMETERY
Oost-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 198
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