Second Lieutenant William James Lavelle

Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Panel reference: Panel 38 to 40.
Date published: 24/05/1918
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 21/03/1918
Cemetery: Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France
Information: Second Lieutenant William James Lavelle, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, was reported missing on March 21st, 1918, but is now officially reported killed. He was a son of Mr. A. Lavelle, 32 Orient Gardens, Cliftonvllle Road, Belfast. He joined the Army in September, 1914, and went to France in 1915 with the Ulster Division in a battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He was wounded in July, 1916, and in August, 1917, was gazetted to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.