Person    | Male  Died 24/7/1917

Algernon Edward Le May

Countries: Belgium

War dead, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

Algernon Edward Le May

Lieutenant of the Royal Field Artillery. Buried  in plot XIV.A.4 in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. He belonged to the Le May family of hop factors, whose former premises at 67 Borough High Street are shown in the photograph.  See Baldwin Hamey for some splendid research on the Le May hop business.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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