Sapper 195140 Lawrence CARROLL
General Headquarters Signal Company, Royal Engineers
Died of Illness, Sunday 10th November 1918, France, Age 20
Home address:
76 Ridling Lane, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1898, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Elizabeth Carroll and Thomas Richard Carroll
76 Ridling Lane, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Boy Messenger for Post Office
Enlisted:
Manchester, Lancashire
Remembered:
Kezelberg Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, plot II, row B, grave 4.
Link to Hyde:
Born in Hyde
Died of Pneumonia after spending 6 days in hospital.
The news of his death reached his mother on November 11th 1918.
He was the last of the 710 men to die before the Armistice.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission States Aged 22 when died.
The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his mother: