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Trooper ERNEST THISTLETHWAITE

Service Number: 1429
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Household Battalion

1st

Date of Death

Died 24 May 1917

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XXV. D. 12.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Carrie Thistlethwaite, of 19, Thursby Rd., Burnley, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription IF LOVE COULD HAVE SAVED HIM HE WOULD NOT HAVE DIED
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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