Second Lieutenant Lionel Shaw LEE (1910)

5th (Service) Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Born 14 November 1891 on Portsea Island, Hampshire
Killed in action 25 September 1915, aged 23
Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West Flanders, Belgium; also commemorated on the war memorial and a window at St Peter’s Church, Curdridge, Hampshire.

Lionel Lee was the son of Edward Herbert Soden Lee and Lizzie, née Shaw, of Botley, Hampshire.

He was educated at Wellington College, and matriculated at Merton in 1910. He was a member of the college’s 1914 Hockey team.

He joined up with the 1/9th (County of London) Battalion (Queen Victoria's Rifles) on 26 August 1914; after six weeks with them he was given a commission in the 5th Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry, and landed at Boulogne on 21 May 1915. Later that year he was Mentioned in Dispatches.

He was posted as missing, presumed killed in action, at the Battle of Loos, on 25 September 1915.