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LANCASTER Arnold Busk 2/Lt
Catalogue reference: SKR/DAT/IP/20879
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- SKR/DAT/IP/20879
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- LANCASTER Arnold Busk 2/Lt
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Date (When the record was created)
- 2000-2024
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Surname: LANCASTER;
Forename(s): Arnold Busk;
Initials: AB;
Rank: 2/Lt;
Enlistment Date: 10-Feb-1909;
Previous Number: 24143;
Previous Regiment: MGC;
Date of transfer to MGC: 07-Sep-1916;
MGC Branch: Infantry;
MGC Unit: 29 Bn;
Date abroad: 23-Nov-1914;
Theatre of War: 1;
How killed: DOW;
Where: France;
When killed: 11-Apr-1918;
Other Data: born 5/3/1891
1914-15 Star roll - to MGC No 24143 and disch to Commsn 25/4/1917 MGC
wounded 10/4/1918 - died in 33 CCS - gsw right leg
left widow Elsie Emily Lancaster (born Wootton-under-Edge, Glos) and a child, Cissie Arnold Lancaster (aged 5m) at Keynsham, Bristol;Other Notes: LANCASTER, Second Lieutenant, ARNOLD BUSK, MM, 29th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). Died of wounds 11th April 1918. Age 27. Son of William Mason Lancaster, of W Drayton, Middx; husband of Elsie Emily Lancaster, of Clyde House Keynsham, Bristol. E. 10. Haverskerque British Cemetery - Nord, France.
(NB: MM LG 27/10/1916 with 14th London Regt - a Somme award);Related National Archives files: WO339/80681;
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Vickers MG Collection & Research Association
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Graham Sacker
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SKR/DAT/IP
Machine Gun Corps Database
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Machine Gun Corps Database Collection
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Machine Gun Corps Database
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