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Military service
Service number:
73166
Age:
26
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
28th Bn.
Birth:
March 3, 1889
Duperis, Wisconsin
Enlistment:
October 29, 1914
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Death:
October 18, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. E. 28.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Isabella Nixon of Silverstone, Oregon, United States of America. Brother of Jennie.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Lawrence Alexander Nixon
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Photo of Lawrence Alexander Nixon
In memory of the men from the 28th Battalion CEF who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Photo of Machine Gun Section 28th Battalion.
Photo of Machine Gun Section 28th Battalion. Pte L.A. Nixon top row, fourth from left.
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Lawrence Alexander Nixon
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Lawrence Alexander Nixon
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Lawrence Alexander Nixon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 30 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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