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Lance Corporal GEORGE EDWARD HIGNETT

Service Number: 10734
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 11 April 1917

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

II. A. 40.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Alice Hignett; husband of Sylvia Violet Blanch Hignett, of "Heather Cliffe," King Edward Rd., Onchan Head, Isle of Man.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS WE LOVE IS NOT TO DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3067
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