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- WILKINSON
- J
- JOHN
- Burnley
- Lancashire, England
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117 Healeywood Road
- Son of David and Mary Ellen Wilkinson, of 117, Healey Wood Rd., Burnley; his brother Joshua also served in the 1/5th Bn. He survived.
- Weaver at the Thornhill Manufacturing Co.
Militaire dienst
- Burnley, February 1914
- 240228
- Serjeant
- D C M
- 1st/5th Bn. East Lancashire Regiment
- 126th Brigade
- 42nd Division
- B.E.F.
- to France on 10 May 1915; DCM for the rescue of eleven men under great difficulties, there being heavy big gun and machine-gun firing, in April 1917
Overlijden
- 12 September, hit while asleep in rest billet
- Died of bullet wound in the chest, in n°17 CCS
- 17 September 1917
- 23
- XIX - D - 12
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