Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4827
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004827
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Lunenburg If in City or Town Chester
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Dillon, Walter Croston
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE South Africa
9. DATE OF BIRTH 4 6, 1891
10. AGE in Years78 Months11 Days18 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 1948 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Cicely Dillon
16. NAME of Father Lin Dillon
17. BIRTHPLACE England
18. NAME of Mother Helen Coetze
19. BIRTHPLACE South Africa
20. Signature of Informant Cicely Dillon
address Chester
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial Chester
Date of burial 25 July 1970
22. Undertaker Davis Funeral Home, Chester
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Compound Fracture of Skull
(b) Multiple Fractures of Arms, Legs and Chest
(c)
other Suicide - run over by train
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