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Lewis Buckley MARSLAND

Private 97010 Lewis Buckley MARSLAND of Royal Army Medical Corps

Drowned Friday 4th May 1917, At Sea near Italy, age 30

Home address:61 Bennett Street, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:1887, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:Edith Marsland and William Marsland of 12 Durham Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Lancashire
Marital status:Married to Annie Marsland (née Burrows) of 61 Bennet Street, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire
Occupation:Insurance Agent, Prudential Assurance Company
He enlisted in:Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:Ramatuelle Communal Cemetery, Var, France,   Commonwealth War Dead
Link to Hyde:Born in Hyde

Brother to Lance Corporal 17571 Heywood Marsland.

He was a member of the Temperance Movement in Hyde.

He drowned when the Cunard Liner S.S Transylvania sank near Genoa. 412 lives were lost when the liner was torpedoed by a German U-boat while carrying troups from Marseille to Alexandria.