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Also to the dearly loved memory of their second son
Lionel Victor Pollock Lalonde
2nd Lieutenant Somerset Light Infantry who died in France
On active service March 31st 1916 aged 24 years
Thereby we perceive the love of God because he laid down his life for us
And we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren
John 5 16
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Milton Cemetery Weston-super-Mare
North Somerset
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Lionel Victor Pollock
Lalonde
25th January 1892
Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset
31st March 1916
Died from pneumonia picked up in the trenches at No 16 General Hospital, Le Treport, France
24
Le Treport Military Cemetery, Maritime-Seine, France
First World War
Lieutenant
45th Company Machine Gun Corps
Gloucestershire Yeomanry, 9th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
Commissioned 2nd April 1915 - didn't go overseas until early February 1916.
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