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WILLIAM LEE
BORN LIVERPOOL, 1879. ENLISTED LIVERPOOL. FORMERLY, 10001, 5TH CAVALRY RESERVES. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 23186, 3RD KING'S OWN YORKHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY.
HE COMMITTED SUICIDE, BY CUTTING HIS THROAT, IN BILLET, ON BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL. 19/10/1915, AGED 36.
HIS WAR PENSION CARD RECORDS HIS DEATH AS "SELF INFLICTED WOUNDS, DURING TEMPORARY INSANITY AND DISEASE CONTRACTED WHILST ON ACTIVE SERVICE".
HIS WIFE ELIZABETH BURNS, LIVED AT 53, LUKES STREET, LIVERPOOL. HIS WIFE WAS BORN ON 25/03/1883 AND HAD THREE STEP CHILDREN FROM A FORMER RELATIONSHIP. THEY MARRIED AT LIVERPOOL, IN 1914 HAD ONE SON TOGETHER, GEORGE HENRY LEE, BORN ON 25/09/1914 AND DIED 26/05/1917.
WILLIAM LEE'S DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 20/10/1915.
HE IS BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
Kingston upon Hull HU5 4AY
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