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Captain HUGH HENRY LEAN

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 29 July 1917

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

II. G. 35.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment (Staff Bde. Major 153rd Inf. Bde.)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Maj.-Gen. K. E. Lean, C.B., and Mrs. Lean (nee Quin). Four times previously wounded in the War.
  • Personal Inscription LOYAL,STEADFAST AND TRUE
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Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 953
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