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Lance Corporal WILLIAM FRANCIS LYONS

Service Number: 49040
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

103rd Coy.

Date of Death

Died 21 February 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY

IV. B. 26.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of William and Charlotte Lyons, of Milford, Stafford. Born Brockton, Much Wenlock, Salop.
  • Personal Inscription AFTER TOIL AND SUFFERING GOD GAVE HIM ETERNAL REST
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Buried or commemorated at

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3548
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