Lives of the First World War

19th April 1917

This is Archie Jabez Lacey, not Arthur J Lacey as the Medal Card Index says. CWGC records Archie Jabez Lacey's death as on 19/04/1917, age 21 at Gaza and gives his Service No. as 331108, Rank: Rifleman, Hampshire Regiment, 1st/8th Btn., which corresponds with the details in the Medal Card Index. He is buried in Gaza War Cemetery, Grave : XXI. E. 13. His parents are named as Joseph and Lucy Lacey, of Wilton Cottage, Oakfield Hill, Ryde, Isle of Wight. He was my great uncle and was killed just a week before the birth of his nephew, (my father), on 26/04/1917.

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