Monday 19 April 2010

6504 Pte William Lyle, 9th Bn, RWF

6504 Private William Lyle of the 9th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was killed in action on the 18th April 1918. He was born in Llanwonno, Glamorgan and enlisted at Abercynon.

William was 20 years old when he died. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Bert Lyle of 33 Avondale Street, Ynysboeth, Abercynon, Glamorgan, and the young husband of Alice Eliza Lyle. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial at Zonnebeke.

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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