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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Turpin Robert Barker Thornton
|Army number=4384644
|Rank=C/Sgt
|Date of birth=18/12/1903 at South Medomsley Colliery.
|Age=0
|Unit=Served in the ranks of the Green Howards  (Enlistment Book not available).  Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry 28/8/1939.  Embodied 1/9/1939.   Posted 11th Bn DLI.  ? BEF.  Served Iceland.  Served Normandy?   Posted ? Bn DLI on Brigade disbandment.   Trf Royal Army Service Corps 10/8/1945 (RASC Records show transfer date as 10/5/1945).   Class Z Army Reserve 18/10/1945.   Re-Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, Posted 8th Bn DLI.
|Joined Brigade=1/9/1939
|Died/Killed in action=3/9/1964 at Royal Leicester Infirmary, aged 60.  Probate granted 23/2/1965.
|Home address=Son of William and Annie Jane Turpin (nee Thornton).  Married Elizabeth Greener in the Lanchester District on 3/8/1925 and subsequently Mary English.  At the time of his death he was living at 108, Stoughton Street, Leicester.
|Image Name=Sgt_Turpin_in_Iceland.jpg
|Image Title=Sergeant R B T Turpin in Iceland
|Source table=11DLI
}}