Thomas Lion

Private Thomas Edward Lion was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 21 January 1890, in Hendon, the only son of Juan Joaquin, a nurseryman by trade, and Anna Lion (née Boehmer), of Puerto Rico and Philadelphia, respectively. After studying at the Lower School of John Lyon, Lion went to work at the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. He volunteered after the outbreak of war, joining the Royal Army Medical Corps.Ancestry.com. UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. 
Lion went to the Western Front with the 3rd (London) Field Ambulance in January 1915. On 28 September, Lion died at a field hospital, of wounds received the same day when he was hit by a shell in the Battle of Loos.
He is buried in Bethune Town Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Lion, Thomas Edward, cwgc.org. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
Category:1890 births
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Category:British military personnel
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Category:British people of American descent
Category:Buried in France
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