Lance Lewis

Second Lieutenant Lance Will Lewis was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 6 February 1892, in Toxteth Park, the son of David Leopold and Ray Lewis (née Moses), of Australia and Liverpool, respectively. Lewis attended Repton School and graduated from Brasenose College with a BA (with honours) in history. He enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company on 4 August 1914, on the day that Britain declared war on Germany. Three months later, Lewis was commissioned in the King's Royal Rifle Corps.Ancestry.com. UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Lewis went to the Western Front in August 1915, and from June 1916 was attached to the 165th Machine Gun Company. He died on 9 August 1916, in an attack on the village of Guillemont during the Somme Offensive.
He is buried in Guillemont Road Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Lewis, Lance Will, cwgc.org. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
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