Walter Lion

Rifleman Walter Mayer Lion was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1884, in Islington, the son of Maurice Michael, a manufacturer of boots and shoes, and Adelaide Lion (née Lynes), both of London. At the time of the 1911 Census, Lion was working as a window cleaner while living with his wife and daughter at 393 Sherrand Road, Manor Park.
Aged 34, Lion died on 10 May 1918, during Germany's Spring Offensive on the Western Front, while serving with the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Irish Rifles. He had married Mabel Louisa Perrett in 1916.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Tyne Cot Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Lion, Walter M., cwgc.org. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
Category:1884 births
Category:1918 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Tyne Cot Memorial
Category:Rifleman