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Private Walter Dyer - Wilts Regiment

Private Walter John Dyer (2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment) died from his wounds on 30th June 1916, he was 22. He is buried at the Daours Communal Cemetery in France.
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Walter Dyer was born in 1894 and baptised in Great Coxwell May 13th the same year, the son of Frederick and Mary Dyer.
His mother Mary Ann (Mulcock) and father Frederick married in Great Coxwell and are buried in the churchyard, they had 3 other children:

Ernest Harry (1892), Stanley (1897) and Ralph (1908).

Walter is commemorated on the Great Coxwell memorial and in St. Giles Church.
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