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L/Cpl. Wilfred Kemp Thorne
British Army 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
(d.27th May 1918)
Wilfred Thorne died aged 23 whilst serving with the 15th DLI. He was born in Jarrow in 1895, Son of John and Fanny Thorne (nee Kemp) of 19 Catherine Street Jarrow. In the 1911 Census Wilfred Thorne, age 16, an Apprentice Joiner with a Building contractor, is listed as living with his Widower Father, Francis Thorne & his siblings at 19, Catherine Street, Jarrow-on Tyne. He enlisted in Jarrow and is remembered on the Soissons Memorial.
