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Lieutenant Lancelot Charles Wise

 

 

Lieutenant Lancelot Charles Wise, son of Charles Dacres and Madeline Stella Wise, of Alleron, Loddiswell, Devon, England. Wise had arrived in France as a Second Lieutenant with D Squadron, North Irish Horse, on 2 May 1915. He was serving with the 3rd Lancers (Skinners Horse) when he died on 2 May 1917. He is buried in Rawalpindi War Cemetery, Pakistan, grave 4.A.6. The gravestone inscription reads:

LIEUTENANT

L.C. WISE

NORTH IRISH HORSE

2ND MAY 1917 AGE 23

FOR TO ME, TO LIVE IS CHRIST

AND TO DIE IS GAIN

 

Wise

The Times, 3 July 1917, p.11

 

Image of gravestone kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org.