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• Name GLEESON
• Initials W
• First name WILLIAM
• Place of birth Dublin
• Country Ireland
• Family Son of William and Margaret Gleeson; one brother, George; three sisters, Esther, Christina, Bridget.
  Husband of Bridget Gleeson, of 17, Prebend St., Dublin; one daughter, Mary, aged 8 in 1918
• Profession railway labourer (van driver)
• Extra info Was with the Special Reserve 5th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, since 1904, reengaged 1914

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Dublin
• Service number 6214
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
• Division - Brigade 86th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 29th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked for Alexandria, 20 August 1915; wounded October 1916

Death

• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds right leg, left thigh fracture, in n°10 CCS
• Date of death 11 October 1918
• Died at the age of 30
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXX - B - 13

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