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Wednesday, 14 November 2012

First World War Commonwealth War Grave - Private Laurence Cyril Winstone, Royal Warwickshire Regiment


"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them".
 
 
Laurence Cyril Winstone was born in 1900 in Maidenhead, Berkshire to Frederick Thomas Winstone, a general labourer, and his wife Alice Mary Burton.

Laurence recorded as Lawrence, fist appears on the 1901 census aged just six months old, living at 68 Reform Road with his parents and five elder siblings. By the 1911 census the family had moved to 54 Waldeck Terrace, Reform Road, Maidenhead.
 
In 1918 Laurence enlisted with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 5th Battalion.  Sadly only 3 months into service Lawrence was wounded.  Lawrence was then sent to 16 Northumberland Voluntary Auxiliary Hospital (Later Ashington General Infirmary), where he succumbed to his injuries on 11th October 1918, just one month before the Great War ended.
 
 
Ashington Hospital
 
 


1 comment:

  1. I've never seen that kind of detail - very interesting! How sad that he died at such a young age.

    Thanks for sharing -- and for linking!

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