Person    | Male  Died 18/6/1942

Lance Serjeant John Edward Lavery

Categories: Armed Forces

Countries: Ireland, Scotland

War dead, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW2.

Lance Serjeant John Edward Lavery

John Edward Lavery was born in County Down, Northern Ireland and resided in Armagh, Northern Ireland. On 28 July 1938 he was appointed as a postman in the London Postal Region.

He was serving as a Lance Serjeant in the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, service number 6975241, when he died on 18 June 1942 and his body was buried in the West Extension, Section H, Grave 241, in Cumnock New Cemetery, 187 Glaisnock Street, Cumnock, KA18 1JX, Scotland.

He is also commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website and on page 153 of the Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance's Book of Remembrance 1939-1949. 

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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