The story
John Lawrence J L Nixon, Trooper served with Royal Armoured Corps, 144th (8th Bn. The East Lancashire Regt.) Regt..
Service number: '4279196'. Date of death: 1944-07-18. Age: 22. Country: France.
Buried at Bayeux War Cemetery, grave reference I. F. 5..
SON OF JOHN WILLIAM NIXON AND OF ALICE MAUD NIXON (NEE WILKINSON); HUSBAND OF SUSANNAH ROSE NIXON (NEE SMALL), OF SHERRIFF HILL, GATESHEAD, CO. DURHAM.
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