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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

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • 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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