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• Name WILKINSON
• Initials E
• First name ERNEST
• Place of birth Burnley
• Country Lancashire, England
• Family Son of Arthur and Emma Jane Wilkinson, of 212, Gannow Lane, Burnley; a brother, Walter, served with the Goldstream Guards, survived.
• Education St.John's School
• Profession Weaver

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment April 1916 Burnley
• Service number 10/203625
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 2nd/4th Bn. East Lancashire Regiment
• Division - Brigade 198th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 66th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career To France September 1916; trench fever, medical treatment home; again sent out September 1917

Death

• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds in the head, face and skull in n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 10 January 1918
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - C - 17A

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