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58351: Pictoral History of Harold Lanceley in the Great War

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posted on 2024-02-23, 22:59 authored by Great War Archive Project Team

My Grandfather, Harry Lanceley, sailed with A company, 1/5 Cheshires in 1915 and served near Ypres. He became Sergeant and was slightly wounded after the battalion moved to the Somme. He took part in the battle of Gommecourt on 1st July 1916, alongside 2nd Lieutenant Arthur and was posted missing. Badly wounded in the head and thigh, he crawled back to the British lines. Hospitalised in Scotland, he spent time at Kinmel Camp, North Wales where he was commissioned in 1918 and joined C company 5th South Wales Borderers. He was in some intense fighting on the Marne but survived the war. He subsequently became head of forestry at Clibrans Ltd., Hale, Cheshire. He died in 1971. I am still researching his war.

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8704.cpd| 2228.jpg|GWA_0154_WW1a_copy.jpg 2229.jpg|GWA_0155_WW1b_copy.jpg

Subject

Lanceley, Harry

Date

1915 - 1918

Date Created

01/01/1915

Temporal Coverage

31/12/1918

Source

Photograph

Medium

Photographic paper

Type

Photograph

Pages

1, 2

Number of Pages

2

Contributor

Kate Lindsay | Ian Sant

Rights

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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