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Col.Sgt. James Thomas Halstead
British Army Border Regiment
from:Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire
Colour Sergeant James Pilkington went through World War Two without a scratch. Whilst on active service in Kenya following the war, he contracted Malaria and died within three days in October 1947. He is buried in the Military cemetery in Nanyuki Kenya.