Gunner Llewellyn Bartholomew Strange

[MaryA]

Need to confirm this man's links with Liverpool.

From the CWGC site
STRANGE, L B

Rank:
Gunner
Service No:
123653
Date of Death:
24/08/1917
Regiment/Service:
Royal Garrison Artillery

145th Siege Bty.
Grave Reference
I. F. 31.
Cemetery
BLEUET FARM CEMETERY

[Katie]

Royal Garrison Artillery
Strange
123653
Llewellyn B
Gunner
Liverpool
24th August 1917
Killed
Husband of Constance Strange, of 40, Scourfield Street, Liverpool.

Additional information: Added by Kathyd from a notice in a Liverpool paper

[daggers]

Extra, from Soldiers Died in the Great War & MIC:
Llewellyn Bartholomew Strange, 123653, Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Victory and British War Medals.
Killed in Action.

ADDED, from a query on the Great War Forum several years ago:
Gunner Strange was born in Oxford, son of Lewis and Annie. He enlisted in Liverpool, and probably served in an 8-inch Howitzer battery which had been raised in PORTLAND [edited to correct spelling]..

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[MaryA]

Llewellyn Strange married Constance Bluck Q4 1911 West Derby, Register Office or Registrar Attended

In 1911 Llewellyn Strange 21 year old Lift Attendant at a Hotel, born Oxford is lodging at 37 Dorset Road, Tuebrook.

Although he is enumerated on a separate sheet, the other family in the same house is another Lift Attendant Ernest Foster 33 from Ramsgate, Kent, wife Esther 32 from Wolverhampton, children Horace 7 born Manchester and Phyliss 3 months born Liverpool, also a visitor Connie Blue, 19 year old Housemaid in a Hotel born Kennington, London