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Bilston, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Kingsley Place, Leicestershire, Royal Artillery, Second World War, Victor Lack
Victor (recorded as Ernest V. on the Birth Registration) was born on 24 August 1915 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, the son of Walter H. and Nellie Lack. They had moved to the Wolverhampton area by 1921, and by 1939 they were at 12 Kingsley Place, in Bilston. Victor was working as a brickworks labourer, and he and his parents were joined in the household by his brother, George P., and his uncle, Ernest A. Robinson.
Victor enlisted as a Gunner with the 178 Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery (service number 975473). On 14 September 1942, he was discharged under King’s Regulations, paragraph 390 (xvi) as “ceasing to fulfil Army physical requirements”, meaning that he was physically unfit to continue serving. He died in Bilston on 12 June 1944, presumably as a result of his war service, as he is recorded on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site. He is buried in Bilston Cemetery, and remembered on the Bilston World War Two Roll of Honour.
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