Difference between revisions of "Nixon Ernest Pte 4459405"

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|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 20-May-40.  Buried Grave 18,  [[MERCATEL CEMETERY]].
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|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 20-May-40.  Buried Grave 18,  [[MERCATEL CEMETERY]].  Headstone inscription reads : LOVING MEMORIES.
 
|Home address=Son of Ernest Story and Mary Nixon, Carlisle.   
 
|Home address=Son of Ernest Story and Mary Nixon, Carlisle.   
 
|Image Name=Nixon_E_4459405_1_TS.JPG
 
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Latest revision as of 18:53, 16 December 2021

Personnel Entry

Pte E Nixon's CWGC headstone.
Pte E Nixon's CWGC headstone.

Name Nixon Ernest
Army number 4459405
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born 1916/17.
Age 23 at the time of his death.
Unit Joined The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date as yet, but his number suggests Summer 1939. Posted to the ? 9th Battalion. Posted to the ? 12th Bn DLI 1/9/1939. Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1 TS. Served BEF. KILLED in ACTION 20/5/40, Category "B", Auth:- WOL/SS/M/DCV/CASUALTY dated 29/4/43.
Company/Battery C Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not known but probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade 1/9/1939.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not yet known.
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action KILLED in ACTION 20-May-40. Buried Grave 18, MERCATEL CEMETERY. Headstone inscription reads : LOVING MEMORIES.
Home address Son of Ernest Story and Mary Nixon, Carlisle.
Source table 1TS