Information from the Roll of Honour
    
        | Parish | Surname | Initials | Award | Rank | Ship or Regiment | Place of Death | Date of Death | 
    
        | Exeter | Lemon | Sidney |  |  | Durham L.I. | Aldershot* | 27
            March
            1917 | 
An asterisk * in the Place of Death indicates an hospital death
A double asterisk ** in the Place of Death indicates the record is annotated with Missing
    
    Further Information from Contributors
    
    
        - 
            RoH Ref.
        
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            3237
        
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            Forename
        
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            Sydney William
        
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            Surname
        
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            Steer
        
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            Rank or Rating
        
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            Service Number(s)
        
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            301396
        
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            Father
        
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            Unknown
        
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            Mother
        
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            Eliza (nee Steer)
        
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            Wife
        
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            Mary Jane (nee Carnell)
        
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            Date of Birth
        
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            1879
        
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            Where Born
        
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            Exeter, Devonshire
        
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            Date Baptised
        
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            14
            October
            1881
        
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            Ship or Regiment
        
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            Durham Light Infantry, 2nd/8th Battalion
        
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            Date of Death
        
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            27
            March
            1917
        
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            Place of Death
        
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            Connaught Military Hospital, Aldershot
        
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            Grave or Memorial
        
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            Remarks
        
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            Took the name Steer when his mother married William Lemon in 1883
        
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            Contributor
        
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            PB, Sue Jackson