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Ernest Thorpe

Lance Serjeant

Service No. 8669

Age 29

Died on 9 August 1915

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Husband of Hilda L. Thorpe, of 81, Radford Boulevard, Nottingham.

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Henry Harrison

Ernest, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Ernest, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalion...

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