"Also In Memory of LIONEL JAMES ORMROD, THE ELDEST SON OF OLIVER AND EMILY ORMROD, OF PICKHILL HALL, / LATE 2ND LIEUTENANT 12TH ROYAL LANCERS. / DIED 3RD MAY 1915; AGED 32 YEARS."
Lionel James Ormrod
Second Lieutenant
12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
Lionel Ormrod is shown on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register as 'L.J. Ormrod', who served with the 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers and died on 3 May 1915.
Lionel was the son of Oliver Ormrod, of Pickhill Hall, co. Denbigh, and is buried in the south-east part of the churchyard of St Dunawd Church, Bangor Is-coed, Flintshire, along with his two brothers, Lawrence Moreland Ormrod and Oliver Hugh Ormrod, who also died during the First World War.
Oliver Ormrod, Lawrence's father, placed a mural tablet in the parish church at Bangor Is-coed, to the memory of his three sons.
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The gravestone of Emily Ormrod, of Pickhill
Hall, with details of the commemoration to Oliver Hugh Ormrod. "Also In Memory of LIONEL JAMES ORMROD, THE ELDEST SON OF OLIVER AND EMILY ORMROD, OF PICKHILL HALL, / LATE 2ND LIEUTENANT 12TH ROYAL LANCERS. / DIED 3RD MAY 1915; AGED 32 YEARS." |