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Leading Steward ERNEST SYDNEY THORNTON

Service Number: D/LX 26685
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Squirrel

Date of Death

Died 24 July 1945

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Panel 95, Column 1.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edmund and Alice Elizabeth Thornton; husband of Martha Ann Thornton, of Clayton, Lancashire.
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