Reference WMO/264891
Edit memorial name, location & address- Second World War (1939-1945)
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Headstone: And Of Frank Dearly Loved Son/ Killed In Italy 8th Feb. 1944/ Aged 34 Years. / Greater Love Hath No Man/ Than That He Lay Down His Life For His Country. Left Kerb: In Memory Of Arthur Fred Buckthorpe/ Died 5th Jan. 1944, Aged 70 Years. Right Kerb: And Of His Wife Gertrude/ Died 12th July 1973, Aged 100 Years.
Frank Buckthorpe. Private 14597895. 1st Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. Died 8th February 1944. Born c1909 Lincoln, Lincolnshire. Son of Arthur F and Gertrude Buckthorpe of 16 Motherby Hill, Lincoln, Lincs (as at 1911), husband of Florence M Buckthorpe (nee Bowler, later wife of William C Crosbie) and father of Terence J and David A Buckthorpe. Buried Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio. III.E.5.
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