Harold Frank Douglas Lay, my first cousin twice removed, killed piloting a Bristol Fighter from St Omer to the western front in 1918. He was just nineteen years old. His pal George William Annakin Watson was in the gunner's seat and also killed. Aged just twenty, he'd turned out No.1 from his intake of three hundred recruits and was a brilliant student. They are both buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery near Boulogne. Gone but NOT FORGOTTEN...
Harold Frank Douglas Lay was born on February 10, 1899, and died at age 19 years old on March 17, 1918. Harold Lay was buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery Iv. G. 4. in France. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Harold Frank Douglas Lay.
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