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Christopher Lea

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
3082462
Unit at enlistment: 
1st Depot Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Conscripted
Survived the war: 
No
Date of death: 
November 7th, 1918
Cemetery: 
Dour Communal Cemetery - Dour, Belgium - North-West side of cross-path
Birth country: 
England
Birth county: 
Warwickshire
Birth city: 
Birmingham
Address at enlistment: 
Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
2 George Street, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Farmer
Religious denominations: 
Baptist
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
21

Letters and documents

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action. While with his battalion which had advanced through the village of Dour without meeting opposition but had been held up on the outskirts by machine gun fire from nearby slagheap, he was hit and instantly killed by an enemy machine gun bullet.

BX December 23, 1918

Christopher Lea Killed in Action

The Patriotic Office has received a telegram for Mrs. Alice Smith, 2 George Street, stating that Private Christopher Lea was killed in action on November 7.

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