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Rflmn. Lionel Fitzherbert Turpin
British Army York and Lancaster Regiment
from:British Guiana
Lionel Turpin was 19 years old he enlisted in the British army and was sent out with the British Expeditionary Force to the Western Front in Europe.
He was in the battles of the Somme and his army service ended in 1919 with two medals, two gas-burnt lungs and a shell wound in his back. Lionel died in 1929 from the after-effects of war-time gassing. Lionel's story is typical of many black and Asian colonials who came to the aid of the Mother Country during the First World War.