Francis John Lynagh
Age 39
Image taken from ‘B’
Section group picture
1917 shown below
Remembering The Life and Times of Francis John Lynagh
From the book ‘The Gateshead Gunner – Machine Gun Corps’
3
rd
Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
144
th
Machine Gun Company, 48
th
(South Midland) Division
58
th
Battalion Machine Gun Corps, (2/1 London) Division
Born: 13
th
October 1878
Died: 20
th
February 1947
A Veteran of the Corps – May He Rest in Peace
‘B’ Section 144 Machine Gun Company,
144th Brigade, 48th (South Midland) Division - 1917
These
pages
also
remember
PTE163154
Arthur
Stephenson
also
MGC
(Infantry)
who
died
5
days
before
the
war
ended.
Over
1400
others
died
on
this
day.
He
has
no
grave
only
an
inscription
on
the
VIS-EN-ARTOIS
MEMORIAL.
Arthur,
had
he
lived,
would
have
been
Franks
Brother-in-Law.
Arthur
was
born
in
1898.
Very
little
information
exists about Arthur’s time in the MGC and how he died.
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This website contains content from the reference book ‘Life and times of Francis John Lynagh: the Gateshead Gunner’ by Jim Parker.
Copies of the book are held in Gateshead library : search https://libraries.gateshead.gov.uk/home
The biography was commissioned in 1992 by the daughter of Francis Lynagh. Copyright 2019, All rights reserved.
This site is dedicated to remembering those that fought and in many cases died for their country.