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Rflmn. Walter Leonard Gissing

British Army 1st/16th (Queen's Westminster Rifles) Btn. London Regiment

(d.1st Jul 1916)

Walter L. Gissing was the eldest son of the English author George Gissing. He was killed at Gommecourt on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He was 24 and single. He is commemorated on the Theipval Memorial.



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