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Military service
Service number:
B/41100
Age:
34
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Lincoln and Welland Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
April 19, 1910
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 18, 1940
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Death:
January 26, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVI. E. 4.
Additional information
Son of Augustus and Carrie Woodruff Thorne, of Niagara Falls, Ontario. Husband of Laura Ann Thorne, of Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sergeant William Augustus Thorne
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Augustus Thorne
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Augustus Thorne
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 570 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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