Victor James Longthorne

A Lance Corporal with the 7th Battalion, Victor died on 15th of October 1944 aged 22. 

Victor was born at Lowestoft on 26 July 1922, a son of Charles Stewart and Annie Dora Elisabeth Longthorne. In 1939 his family lived at 12 Fir Lane and Victor was a painter.

The 7th Battalion landed at Normandy on 29 June 1944. From late September to mid-October the Allies were engaged in attacking and capturing Overloon and in the latter stages of the battle the 7th Battalion were in the vicinity of the Loobeek near Overloon. At some point Victor was wounded and it seems that he was taken to Gelrdrop for treatment at the Field Hospital, and he died of his wounds and was buried there. In 1945 he was reburied at Mierlo War Cemetery.