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Gunner WILLIE THORNTON

Service Number: 185284
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

"A" Bty. 276th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 18 April 1918

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

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II. G. 3.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mark Thornton, of 9, Dickens St., West Bowling, Bradford; husband of Beatrice Fielding (formerly Thornton), of 3, Lower Brockholes, Ogden, Halifax.
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Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 419
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