The Loos Memorial - Surnames L
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The names of those men of the Yorkshire Regiment with a surname beginning with “L” listed on the Loos Memorial are recorded below.
Commemorative Panels on the Loos Memorial and Headstones in Dud Corner Cemetery can be viewed by selecting here.
Men commemorated on the Loos Memorial
Lance Corporal Frank Lambert
13997. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John and Jane Lambert, of 17, Lowthian Terrace, Washington Station, Co. Durham. Killed 26 September 1915. Aged 21.
Born Herrington (Sunderland), Enlisted Washington.
Serjeant Tom Lambert
375654. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Martha Lambert, of 17th, Perth St., Beckett St., Leeds. Killed 25 September 1915. Aged 30.
Born Leeds, Enlisted Strensall, Resided Leeds.
Private William Little
17315. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 26 September 1915.
Born Newcastle-on-Tyne, Enlisted Aylesbury, Resided Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Private Joseph Local
13812. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 28 September 1915.
Born Wingate (Durham), Enlisted Shiney Row, Resided Washington Station (Durham).
Private Anthony Lucas
13619. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 28 September 1915.
Born Whitehaven (Cumberland), Enlisted Seaham Harbour.
Private Arthur Tom Luty
8032. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Harriett Luty, of 6, Simpkin Buildings, Clayton St., Meadows, Nottingham. Killed 26 September 1915. Aged 30.
Born Skipton (Yorks), Enlisted Richmond (Yorks), Resided Nottingham
Captain Joseph Edward Lynch
110th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Michael Palles Lynch (Barrister-at-Law), and Annie Josephine, his wife, of 4, Clifton Terrace, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. Killed 25 September 1915. Aged 35.
The following notes are from Robert Coulson's “Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment”;-
“Joseph Lynch was a barrister‘s son from Dublin and was born in the city in 1880.
He was educated at Clongowes Wood College followed by Trinity College in Dublin.
Joseph Lynch first served with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in India but contracted enteric fever and malaria and was invalided home.
At the onset of the war he offered his services again to the Army and was attached to the 10th Battalion of the Yorkshires in September of 1914 and was promoted from Lieutenant to Captain on April 3rd 1915.
He sailed with the 10th Battalion from Folkestone arriving in Boulogne on September 10th 1915. Very little time was spent in camp and the battalion were thrown straight into the Battle of Loos. After the small town of Loos had fallen late in the day of September 25th, Captain Lynch and the battalion moved up through Loos and then proceeded to dig in for the night. Captain Lynch and “D” company pushed on a little further and it was during this night advance that Joseph Lynch, already shot through the wrist, was killed in the early hours of September 26th 1915 at the age of 35. He had been in France just over a fortnight. After his death “D” company withdrew to the battalion line.
After his death Joseph Lynch Senior received a letter from Captain Valentine Fowler describing the action in which his son had died and detailing the difficulties the burial parties had endured due to the continuous bombardment of the area around Hill 70.”.
Commemorative Panels on the Loos Memorial and Headstones in Dud Corner Cemetery
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