Corporal Louis Henry Hymans was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1890, in Mile End, the son of Dutch-born cigar maker Henry and his wife Clara Hymans (née Polak), of London. At the time of the 1911 Census, Hymans was a student teacher and was living with his family at 53 Londesborough Road, Stoke Newington.
Hymans died on 21 September 1917, of wounds received on the Western Front, while serving with the 2/13th (County of London) Battalion (Kensington), The London Regiment. A younger brother, Alfred, a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps, died less than a month later.
He is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery.
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- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Hymans, L H, cwgc.org. Retrieved 27 August 2013.