So very young
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So very young
Image: © BrianPritchard Taken: 24 Jan 2008
While looking around the War Memorial on Hoole Road, Chester, this simple wooden cross, upset me when you see just how young this soldier was when he died. On the War Graves Commission web site, Private Lawson G. of the Cheshire Regiment, 'D' Coy. 1st./5th. Bn. Date of death, shown as 21.9.1916, Service No. 2503. Buried at the Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval, France
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