Douglas Alan Thorpe
Service number
4805716
Military unit
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Address
Unknown
Date of birth
06 Jan 1920
Date of death
18 Dec 1945 (25 years old)
Place of birth
Whitwell, Derbyshire
Employment, education or hobbies
Attended Queen Elizabeth School from 1931 to 1939.
- Family History
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Family history
Son of Thomas and Martha Thorpe of 61 Welbeck Street, Whitwell.
Military history
Old Elizabethan Service Roll: Staff Sgt Douglas Alan Thorpe was accidentally killed on the Electric Railway in England on December 18th 1945. He was awaiting demobilisation.
Staff Sgt Thorpe had specialised in radio-location in R.E.M.E and served successively in Eygpt, Iran. Iraq, Syris, Palestine, North Africa and Italy.
Extra information
He was buried in St Lawrence Churchyard Whitwell on the 24th December 1945.
Photographs
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