11264965 Gunner Daniel Joseph Lehane.
The Royal Artillery,
218 Battery,
73rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment.
Aged 26.
Son of Cornelius and Mary Lehane of Macroom, County Cork.
His birth was registered in Q4, 1915, in Fermoy district.
He was killed at St Margaret's, Dover, when a shell hit a trench on 9 November 1942. He and 10 colleagues were killed.
Report of cause of death:
Whilst on active service at Dover and manning an anti-aircraft gun, the gun emplacement took a direct hit by a shell fired by the Germans in France. He and his colleagues were killed instantly.
See
Dover War Memorial
Also killed in the shelling were his colleagues,
John William Abbott
Norman Ballantyne
Leonard Chillingworth
Bert Fowler
Ronald Goodchild
William Hutchison
Frederick Kelly
Peter Loudon
Ernest Parratt
William Turner
CWGC file
Daniel Joseph Lehane
Headstone photo
Lehane
11264965 Gunner Daniel Joseph Lehane.
The Royal Artillery,
218 Battery,
73rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment.
Aged 26.
Son of Cornelius and Mary Lehane of Macroom, County Cork.
His birth was registered in Q4, 1915, in Fermoy district.
He was killed at St Margaret's, Dover, when a shell hit a trench on 9 November 1942. He and 10 colleagues were killed.
Report of cause of death:
Whilst on active service at Dover and manning an anti-aircraft gun, the gun emplacement took a direct hit by a shell fired by the Germans in France. He and his colleagues were killed instantly.
See
Dover War Memorial
Also killed in the shelling were his colleagues,
John William Abbott
Norman Ballantyne
Leonard Chillingworth
Bert Fowler
Ronald Goodchild
William Hutchison
Frederick Kelly
Peter Loudon
Ernest Parratt
William Turner
CWGC file
Daniel Joseph Lehane
Headstone photo
Lehane
Inscription
11264965 Gunner
D. J. LEHANE
Royal Artillery
9th November 1942 Age 26
a Cross with the crest of the Royal Artillery
containing the inscription
Ubique Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt
Latin Translation:
Everywhere Where Right And Glory Leads Us
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