Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Royal Field Artillery
Date of death
11 November 1918
Age of death
21
Local memorial
Cemetery / Memorial
France
Biography
Born on 31st December 1896 in Lambeth, son of John Lee (Metropolitan Police Sergeant), and Mary Jane Bovey. He was baptised in 1897 at St John the Evangelist Lambeth while living at 5 Howley Street, Waterloo. 1901: With his family at 36 Waterlow Buildings, Wilmot Street, Bethnal Green. 1911: A Scholar living with his family at 21 Globe Road, Mile End. In 1918 the family home was at 34 Wynndale Road, South Woodford.
He was a Territorial Gunner with a Trench Mortar Battery, who died of Influenza on the day the Armistice came into effect.
Research by Adrian Lee, Local Historian
Sources:
Ancestry.com