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Private JOHN PURVES PAXTON

Service Number: 4576
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

58th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 26 November 1916

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AVELUY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

L. 42.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Jane Paxton, of Old Linhead, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE DEAD
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Buried or commemorated at

AVELUY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 613
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