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Desmond Brooking D B Thornton, Lieutenant served with Royal Sussex Regiment, 1st Bn..
Service number: '153263'. Date of death: 1944-06-15. Age: 28. Country: France.
Buried at Bayeux War Cemetery, grave reference XIV. J. 16..
SON OF FRANK BROOKING THORNTON, AND OF BEATRICE LOUISA THORNTON, OF ST. JOHN'S WOOD, LONDON.
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