2659469 Ernest WILKINSON, 1 Coldstream Guards

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  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

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  2. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    What's he doing buried down there?
    At one of the Depots perhaps?
     
  3. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

  4. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    That would be my guess, especially if he was with one of the Base Depots.
     
  5. Biker Paul

    Biker Paul Member

    He is buried alongside my Great Uncle Prince Whitaker of the same battalion who died the same day. Their regimental numbers are very close too. My Grandmother was told that they were killed on a canal bridge in Dunkirk. From the war diary I believe that they may have died defending the canal at Furnes. It is a mystery why they were buried so far away
     
  6. harkness

    harkness Well-Known Member

    Wilkinson02.jpg

    Wilkinson.jpg

    Whitaker.jpg
     
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  7. Biker Paul

    Biker Paul Member

    Wow! Where is the information from as I haven't seen this before?
     
  8. harkness

    harkness Well-Known Member

    British Army Casualty Lists on FindMyPast.
     

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