Rank:
Driver
Service number:
555
Unit:
8th Infantry Brigade Headquarters
Location:
Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, France
Date of Death:
15 November 1918
Enquirer:
Packet number:
7430
Date range:
1918-1919
SLSA record number:
SRG 76/1/7430
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Submitted by andrewp on Thu, 11/10/2016 - 16:11
555 Private (Pte) Paul Lynch, 32nd Battalion. Pte Lynch worked as a labourer before enlistment and embarked from Adelaide with B Company aboard HMAT Geelong (A2) on 18 November 1915. Once in France, he was promoted to the rank of Driver with the 8th Australian Infantry Brigade Headquarters. Driver Lynch died of bronchial pneumonia in France on 15 November 1918, just four days after Armistice. He was 30 years of age.
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