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  • Toronto
  • Ontario, Canada
  • Son of Owen and Ann Lynch, 6 Traford Place, Toronto; his father served in the Medical Corps at Spadina Convalescent Hospital; his brother James died of wounds (November 1916) and his youngest brother 'Tommy', 15 years old, enlisted in a battalion outside Toronto (and survived); the mother died shortly after her two sons death.
    Brother of Mrs. Mary Joster, of 517, Crawford St., Toronto.
  • Trunkmaker

Military service

  • 1 November 1915, Kingston
  • 348159
  • Signaller
  • 12th Brigade Canadian Field Artillery Headquarters
  • Went overseas with the 80th Bn.; to France 5 July 1916

Death

  • 24 July, an observation balloon dropped a bomb on the hut in which he was staying;
  • Died of gunshot wounds in the back, hip and left leg, in n°3 Can CCS
  • 24
  • VII - D - 5A

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