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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	Periodical Series
Title	A french town that has paid tribute to a Derbyshire airman - for 100 years.
Date	November 2018
Author	Coet, Loic
Description	Pages 16-19
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Further Information	Captain William Eric Nixon, a Royal Flying Corps pilot from Winster, was shot down , died from his wounds and was buried by the Germans with full military honours in Masny cemetery in 1917.
Term	First World War (1914-1918)

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Nixon; William Eric (1897-1917); Captain; Of Winster; served in King's Own Scottish Borderers and Royal Flying Corps; killed in action 1917.

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France

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