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Pte. Daniel Walter Lee
British Army 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Monk Bretton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
(d.1st July 1916)
Daniel Lee was born on the 8th of September 1881 in Birmingham, Warwickshire. He married Amelia Rook (b.1882 in Broom, Bedfordshire) in 1907 in Biggleswade. They had three children,
John Frederick b.1907, Walter b.1910
and Margaret A. b.1913 in Barnsley. Daniel served with the 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment and lost his life on the 1st of July 1916 aged 35 years. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, the Monk Bretton War Memorial and the St Paul's Church, WW1 Memorial Tablet and WW1 Memorial Book
Amelia went on to marry to John Walsh in 1919 in Barnsley and lived until 1967.