Also Served: William Leonard Rylance - William Leonard RYLANCE
5, Kemble Street, Prescot. Lance Corporal 31423, York and Lancaster Regiment 
Born 1896, Prescot, son of Thomas and Ellen Rylance. In 1911, the family lived at 45, Kemble Street, Prescot, where William, then aged 14, was recorded as a Grocer's Shop Assistant.
He was pictured in the Prescot Reporter of 23/03/1917 with the caption 'York and Lancaster Regiment (Prescot) Wounded'.
William's medal entitlement was to the British War Medal and Victory medal. He did not go overseas before 1916.
In August 1917, William was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the same Regiment as shown in the extract from the Medal Rolls shown below
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