Denny James Crickmore Lythaby

A Private with the 15th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Battalion, Denny died on 16th of September 1918 aged 33. 

Denny's actual 'birth' name was Daniel. However, when he enlisted the Army recorded his first name as Dennis and Commonwealth War Graves recorded him as Denny. He was born at Lowestoft in 1886, a son of Thomas and Hannah Rebecca Lythaby. Between 1891 and 1918 his family lived at 5 Scarle's Buildings, Whapload Road, Lowestoft. Later his mother lived at 70 Whapload Road, Beach, Lowestoft. In 1901 Denny worked as a bricklayer's labourer.

Denny volunteered and joined the Army at Lowestoft. He joined the Suffolk Regiment, service number 15537, and was posted to the 9th Battalion, arriving in France with that battalion on 31 August 1915. At some point he was posted to the 2nd Battalion and, later, to the 15th Battalion. On 16 September 1918 the 15th Battalion were in trenches at Templeux la Fosse. The battalion war diary records that on that day they remained in front line trenches and nothing eventful happened. There is, therefore, no indication of what happened to Denny, but he is recorded as having been killed in action.