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Gunner JOHN WILLIAM THORNTON

Service Number: 154397
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

223rd Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 16 August 1917

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

I. AA. 6.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Elizabeth Thornton, of Idle; husband of Clarice Thornton, of 33, Albion Rd., Idle, Bradford, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription JUST A LITTLE WHILE AND WE SHALL MEET OUR LOVED ONE GONE BEFORE WIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 559
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