170773 Pte Donald Lawrence MGC

 

1885 Born Jan/Mar Born Fressingfield, Suffolk

1891 census at St Peter Hungate, Norfolk,

 

1911 census at Vicarage Rd, Aylsham Rd, Norwich

 

1918 March 6 3rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps, 3rd Division formed in France

1918 June enlisted (from regimental number and War Gratuity) Looks like he did not serve overseas’s Posted to 11th Reserve Battalion Machine Gun Corps at Moore Park, Fermoy

Served during WW1 as he had a war gratuity of 6 pounds recorded on soldiers effects

1919 Jul 21 Died, shot himself in the head

 

British Soldiers died in Ireland