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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Toronto
• Land Ontario, Canada
• Family Son of Owen and Ann Lynch, 6 Traford Place, Toronto; his father served in the Medical Corps at Spadina Convalescent Hospital; his brother James died of wounds (November 1916) and his youngest brother 'Tommy', 15 years old, enlisted in a battalion outside Toronto (and survived); the mother died shortly after her two sons death.
  Brother of Mrs. Mary Joster, of 517, Crawford St., Toronto.
• Profession Trunkmaker

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 1 November 1915, Kingston
• Service number 348159
• Rank Signaller
• Regiment and unit 12th Brigade Canadian Field Artillery Headquarters
• Other data related to military career Went overseas with the 80th Bn.; to France 5 July 1916

Death

• Wounded 24 July, an observation balloon dropped a bomb on the hut in which he was staying;
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds in the back, hip and left leg, in n°3 Can CCS
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VII - D - 5A

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