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Personal data

• Name WILKINSON
• Initials J
• First name JOHN
• Place of birth Burnley
• Country Lancashire, England
• Last residence 117 Healeywood Road
  
• Family 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.
• Profession Weaver at the Thornhill Manufacturing Co.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Burnley, February 1914
• Service number 240228
• Rank Serjeant
• Medals D C M
• Regiment and unit 1st/5th Bn. East Lancashire Regiment
• Division - Brigade 126th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 42nd Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career 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

Death

• Wounded 12 September, hit while asleep in rest billet
• Type of wounds Died of bullet wound in the chest, in n°17 CCS
• Date of death 17 September 1917
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIX - D - 12

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