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Military service
Service number:
16478
Age:
45
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
February 1, 1871
Death:
April 24, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Susannah Thornton, of 2348, Maple Avenue, Jubilee, Burnaby, British Columbia; husband of the late Susannah Thornton.
Digital gallery of Private Joseph Herbert Thornton
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Herbert Thornton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 39 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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