Memorial

Trooper Lionel E.A. Rolph

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Source: Copyright Paul Cooper

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Current Location

On left side beyond the chapel from the main gate, Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Lakenheath, Forest Heath, Suffolk, IP27 9DX, England

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Type of Memorial: Addition to gravestone
WMR Reference Number: 100897
Description: A stone four sided obelisk gravestone with two names in addition to that remembered.
Inscription: IN/ LOVING MEMORY OF/ LIONEL EDWIN A./ ROLPH./ TROOPER, 21ST MOUNTED RIFLES, NEW ZEALAND FORCES/ THE ONLY SON OF (...)/ WHO DIED AT CAIRO, FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED IN PALESTINE, / NOV.15 1917,/ AGED 25 YEARS/ HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE/ FOR THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY/ AND JUSTICE

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 1
Died: 1
Information shown: Name, rank, regiment, family position, place of death, cause of death,, country of death, date of death, age at death
Order of names: As above

Gravestone

Height: 1828mm

Width: 914mm

Made from: Stone

Condition: Poor