Lewis Dacosta

Private Lewis Dacosta (or Da Costa)Likely born Aaron. was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in Stepney, the son of Isaac, a traveller in fancy goods, and Rachel Dacosta (née Ellis), of London and Liverpool, respectively. At the time of the 1911 Census, the Dacosta family were residing at 37 Benson Buildings, Shoreditch.
Aged 20, Dacosta died on 1 August 1917, on the Western Front, while serving with the 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment).
He is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Dacosta, Lewis, cwgc.org. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1917 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:Buried in Belgium
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