DELVILLE WOOD

LONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE

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Somme, France

Lionel Henry WALSH

M.C., D.C.M.

Grave VII.A.22.

Born at Port Elizabeth. Son of Albert and Alice Jane Walsh, of Brackley, Cumnor Avenue, Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. Educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown. Joined the South African Field Ambulance as Staff Sergeant, and sailed with the first South African Contingent. (Source : C.W.G.C.).

Died of wounds on the 29th August 1918. The 7th London (174th Brigade, 58th London Division) was in action in Maricourt sector.