Lewis Frederick Lennie

He was killed in action on July 14, 1916, while driving an armored motorcar in Belgium while the town was being shelled. He was nineteen years old.


Lewis Frederick Lennie of Lindsay, Ontario enlisted on February 20, 1915, and served as a private with the 3rd Canadian Ammunition Sub Park. He was killed in action on July 14, 1916, while driving an armored motorcar in Belgium while the town was being shelled. He was nineteen years old.

His father and brother also served. His father, Charles, was an ambulance driver in the Army Medical Corps and his brother James Edgar Lennie was with the 100th Battalion. Lewis’s brother Andrew, age fourteen, wanted to enlist but was too young.

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