View source for Thornton Graham Gerald Lance Corporal 2005316

{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Thornton Graham Gerald
|Army number=2005316.
|Rank=Lance Corporal.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Birth registered April 1917, Edmonton, Essex.  Mother's maiden surname Woods.
|Age=(At time of death) 27.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Engineers.  Underwent Basic Training.  Posted to 294th Field Company, Royal Engineers.   Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 25/6/1944.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Details awaited.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 25/6/1944.  Initially interred in  Re-buried in Grave IV. D. 9. Fontenay-le-Pesnel War Cemetery, Tessel.  Headstone inscription reads: "GOD TAKES OUR LOVED ONES FROM OUR HOMES BUT NEVER FROM OUR HEARTS. LOVING WIFE ETHEL, MUM & DAD".
|Home address=Son of Gerald Thornton, and of Catherine E. Thornton, of Winchmore Hill, Middlesex; husband of Ethel Louise Thornton, of Winchmore Hill.  Married Ethel Louise Crane October 1939 at Hackney, London.
|Image Name=Lance_Cpl_G_G_Thornton_294th_Fd_Coy.jpg
|Image Title=CWGC Headstone - L/Cpl G G Thornton 294th Field Company, RE.
}}

Some information on this Page has been extracted from the Commemorative Booklet, prepared by Major Langley, covering the period from D-Day to VE Day in addition to that extracted from the War Diaries.  There are issues around the possible duplication of names which remain to be clarified.

Thanks are due to the Find A Grave Website for access to the image of L/Cpl Thornton's headstone.