Thornton G F

Name: THORNTON
Initials: G F
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Quartermaster Sergeant
Regiment: South Lancashire Regiment
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 11/01/1917
Service No: 4789
Additional information: (Buried Quetta Govt. Cem. 2443.).
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Face 23.
Cemetery: DELHI MEMORIAL (INDIA GATE)

Thornton - Quartermaster Sergeant George Frank - South Lancashire Regt.
Grave at Quetta - "In loving memory of No. 4789 Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant George Frank Thornton. 1st Battalion Prince of Wales Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) who died at Quetta on 11 Jan. 1917. Aged 37 yrs. Erected by the warrant officers, NCOs and men of his battalion."