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Name Joseph James WIDDOWSON   
Rank/Number Lieutenant   
Regiment Wiltshire Regiment   1st Battalion
Enlisted  
Age/Date of death 20      23 Oct 1916 
How died/Theatre of war Died of wounds   France & Flanders
Last known address  
Cemetery Contay British Cemetery, Contay, Somme, France 
Grave or Memorial Reference II.A.27 
Location of memorial Aylesbury Market Square
Date/Place of birth 28 Jul 1896      Bedford
Date/Place of baptism  
Pre-war occupation of Casualty  
Parents Joseph J & Alice Widdowson nee Plumbe
Parent's occupation managing clerk, drapers
Parents' Address (last known) 1901: Glen Cara, Wellington St, Slough 
Wife  
Wife's Address (last known)  
Notes father formerly hotel keeper at Kings Head Hotel, Aylesbury 

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