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Noun Named Entity
Categories: British recipients of the George Cross, 1957 deaths, British Rail people, People from Stockport, British train drivers
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John Axon  Axon, John  Jack Axon
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John Axon GC was an English train driver from Stockport who died while trying to stop a runaway freight train on a 1 in 58 gradient at Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire after a brake failure. Wikipedia
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John Axon GC was an English train driver from Stockport who died while trying to stop a runaway freight train on a 1 in 58 gradient at Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire after a brake failure. Wikipedia
British train driver, posthumous recipient of the George Cross Wikidata
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Order of Industrial Heroism
George Cross
CAUSE OF DEATH
train wreck
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom
GIVEN NAME
John
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
OCCUPATION
engineer
PLACE OF BIRTH
Stockport
PLACE OF DEATH
Chapel-en-le-Frith
RELATIVE
John Axon
SEX OR GENDER
male
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John Axon
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John Axon
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Axon, John, Jack Axon

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