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Regiment War Graves, - Lokoja Town Cemetery, Nigeria |
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The location of the Lokoja Town Cemetery in NIgeria.
(Ref : Google Earth)
Lokoja Town Cemetery is in Lokoja, in the district of Kabba. It is on General Murtala Mohammed Way, directly in front of the main hospital, next to the Post Office and Telephone Exchange.
There are 4 Commonwealth war graves of the 1914-1918 war here.
1 soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment is buried in this cemetery
Serjeant Andrew McNamara. 13047. Yorkshire Regiment, attd. 92nd
Training Centre West African Service Brigade, W.A.F.F.
Died 9 January 1919.
(From the Medal Rolls Index card Serjeant McNamara first fought in France
in August 1915. From the GH Gazette database, he was wounded in July 1916,
- Battle of the Somme?)