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Robert West Thornton

Lieutenant

Service No. Unknown

Age 19

Died on 16 June 1915

Royal Fusiliers

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of Maj. Robert Lawrence Thornton, C.B.E., D.L., J.P. and Charlotte Thornton, J.P., of High Cross, Framfield, Sussex.

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