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Sailor – Lake, Sidney – Killed in Action

February 1918

Mexborough and Swinton Times February 2, 1918

Able-Seaman Sidney Lake

He was in his twentieth year, and had been serving since June, 1915.

He had fought in Gallipoli, on the Somme, on the Ancre, and around Arras, Ypres, Passcherdaele, and Cambrai.

He was killed in the Cambrai sector.

From C.W.G.C.: (probably)

Able Seaman
LAKE, SIDNEY
Service Number Tyneside Z/5257
Died 31/12/1917
189th Bde. Machine Gun Coy. R.N. Div.
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve