Monday 12 April 2010

15519 Pte James Gee, 8th Bn King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)

15519 Private James Gee of the 8th Battalion King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), died of wounds on the 12th April 1916. He was a Manchester-born man who had enlisted in the city in November 1914. He arrived in France on the 27th September 1915 and died in Boulogne. He is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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