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Private ERNEST GEORGE CLAXTON

Service Number: 3655469
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South Lancashire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 May 1940

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NIEUWPOORT COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot III, Grave 16.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest John and Alice Claxton, of Flixton, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription AND JESUS SAID: "COME UNTO ME AND REST"
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Buried or commemorated at

NIEUWPOORT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 101
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