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Ben Lloyd

Details

Forename Ben
Surname Lloyd
Middle Name
Memorial Leigh Cenotaph
Age 30
Address 18 Knowsley Street, Twist Lane
Parents' Address
Township Leigh
Rank Lance Corporal
Occupation or place of work Plank Lane Colliery
Regiment South Lancashire Reg 7th Batt
Day of Death 20
Month of Death July
Year of Death 1916
Cause of Death Killed by shell
Place of Burial Thiepval Memorial
Regiment Number 16711
Name of War First World War
Location
Additional Information Well known Northern Union football player. Son of Benjamin and Elizabeth and husband of Hannah. Born in Durham
CWGC, Ancestry, WO 5/8/16
Remembered on Leigh Journal roll of Honour