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Private WILLIAM DIXON

Service Number: 28772
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Lancashire Regiment

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 June 1917

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

II. M. 15.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Alice Dixon, of Gt. Harwood; husband of Beatrice Dixon, of 25, Gladstone St., Gt. Harwood, Blackburn.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR A FRIEND
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Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3036
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