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Personal data

• Name HEATON
• Initials G
• First name GERALD
• Place of birth Ashton-in-Makerfield
• Country Lancashire, England
• Last residence Ashton-in-makerfield
• Family Son of James and Catherine Heaton, of Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, Lancashire; a brother, John Henry;
• Extra info Commemorated on a cenotaph in the cemetery
  of St Thomas's Church, Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 17 June 1915, St. Helens, Lancashire
• Service number 428253
• Rank Sapper
• Regiment and unit 423rd (2nd/2nd West Lancs) Field Coy. Royal Engineers
• Army - Corps - Division 55th Division
• National force B.E.F.

Death

• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds, fracture right femur, in n°3 Can CCS
• Date of death 18 July 1917
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XVI - D - 13

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