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Corporal ERNEST CHARLES LESLIE LYAS

Service Number: 900893
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 23 July 1942

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HABBANIYA WAR CEMETERY

2. G. 3.

Iraq

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Edward and Bertha Eliza Lyas, of Ipswich, Suffolk; husband of Elsie Lyas.
  • Personal Inscription "PEACE, PERFECT PEACE... JESUS HAS VANQUISH'D DEATH AND ALL ITS POWERS"
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Buried or commemorated at

HABBANIYA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 290
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