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• Name LENTON
• Initials G
• First name GERALD
• Place of birth Christchurch
• Country Hampshire, England
• Last residence Thrapston
• Family Fourth son of Henry and Lucy Lenton, of 8, Victoria Avenue, Hunstanton, Norfolk.
• Profession Employee with pharmaceutical chemist
• Extra info Commemorated on the Hunstanton War Memorial and the War Memorial in St. Edmunds Church, Hunstanton.

Military service

• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 2nd Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment
• Division - Brigade 89th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 30th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company as a Private, Service Number 2780; commissioned to the Bedfordshire Regiment by the beginning of 1917

Death

• Wounded 26 July, Zillebeke
• Type of wounds Died of wounds
• Date of death 27 July 1917
• Died at the age of 33
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIV - A - 6

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