Lance Corporal 38781 Phineas EMERY

Lance Corporal 38781 Phineas Emery{gallery}L/Cpl P Emery{/gallery}2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
Killed in action in Battle of the Lys (Lys Offensive), France and Flanders, 16th April 1918, aged 19

• Buried: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave XXVI.F.16
  
• Awarded: British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Arthur and Ellen Emery [nee Birch]
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments and Queen’s Road School

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for L/Cpl Emery
• Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
• Hampshire Regiment

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born 23 May 1898 and baptised 22 Jun 1898 at Pelsall, Staffs
  
• Lived at Ash Tree Road, Pelsall [1901]
• Attended Queen’s Road School
  
• Lived at 57 Toler Road, Nuneaton [1911]
• Lived at Elliot House, Abbey Green, Nuneaton [1918]
• Phineas was a schoolboy in 1911
  
• Enlisted at Nuneaton