First Name: | John Henry | Last Name: | NIXEY | |
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Date of Death: | 02/04/1917 | Lived/Born In: | Wembley | |
Rank: | Private | Unit: | Entrenching Battalion2 | |
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Current Information:Age-34 1, Ecclestone Place, Wembley Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium Attached from 1st Cambridge
Entrenching battalions were temporary units formed in the British Army during the First World War. Allocated at Corps level, they were used as pools of men, from which drafts of replacements could be drawn by conventional infantry battalions and which, in the interim, could be utilised for work at the front. The practice ceased on the Western Front by autumn 1917, due to manpower shortages, but saw a revival at the start of 1918. John Nixey was killed in action on 2nd April, 1917, while attached to the 2nd Entrenching battalion at Ypres and was probably a victim of shell fire |
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