South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 15 June 1940

Guardsman Dies Of Wounds

Mexboro’ Wife Bereaved

Guardsman William Ellis Lake, of 143. Adwick Road, Mexborough, died as a result of woun

ds received while on active service in France. at an English military hospital on Tuesday. Guardsman Lake was a reservist and was called up on the outbreak of war, and was sent to France three months ago. Mrs. Lake received letters from her husband quite frequently, but a fortnight ago she received intimation that he had been wounded.

On Sunday Guardsman Lake vas brought to an English hospital, and Monday night Mrs. Lake was summoned to the hospital Her husband died on the following afternoon.

Guardsman Lake way an old boy of Mexborough Secondary School, and was a choir boy and soloist at Mexborough Parish Church in his youth He took a first prize at one of the Mexborough Musical Festivals.

He leaves a widow and two children. The interment will take place at Mexborough to-day (Friday).

From C.W.G.C.:

Guardsman WILLIAM ELLIS LAKE
Service Number: 2655188

Regiment & Unit/Ship Coldstream Guards 1st Bn.

Date of Death Died 04 June 1940
Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at MEXBOROUGH CEMETERY Sec. B. Uncons. Grave 163.

Additional Info
Husband of Elizabeth Lake, of Mexborough.

Personal Inscription
“THY WILL BE DONE”