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Second Lieutenant Harold Perceval Nixon

 

Nixon

 

Second Lieutenant Harold Perceval Nixon, 6th (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Formerly a Lance Corporal in the North Irish Horse, Service Nos. 1075 (NIH), 71225 (Corps of Hussars). Son of Alexander and Anne Nixon of 12 Hopefield Avenue, Belfast. Killed in action on 26 October 1918, aged 22. Buried at Warcoing Churchyard, Pecq, Hainaut, Belgium, grave located in the north-west part, close to the entrance. The gravestone inscription reads:

SECOND LIEUTENANT

H. P. NIXON

WILTSHIRE REGIMENT

26TH OCTOBER 1918 AGE 22

COME UNTO ME YE WEARY

AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST

 

Image kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org.