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• Name LEWTON-BRAIN
• Initials JA
• First name JAMES ANDREW
• Place of birth Swanton Morley
• Country Norfolk, England
• Family Son of James and Clara Lewton Brain, of The Rookery, Yaxham, Dereham
• Education Educated at King Edward 7 Grammar school, King's Lynn
• Profession Bank clerk

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Victoria, Canada, 5 November 1914
• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 8th Bn. Norfolk Regiment
• Division - Brigade 53rd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 18th Division
• National force B.E.F.

Death

• Wounded Wounded (gas) railway dugouts, Zillebeke, 14 August 1914
• Type of wounds Died of gas poisoning (shell), n°17 CCS
• Date of death 14 August 1917
• Died at the age of 29
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XV - A - 16

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