Rifleman Louis (or 'Lewis') Strelitz was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1894, in Poplar, the son of Solomon, and Emily Strelitz (née Fry), both of London. At the time of the 1911 Census, Strelitz was working as an assistant draper while living with his family at 331 Barking Road.
Aged 22, Strelitz died on 22 October 1916, of wounds received on the Western Front, while serving with the 16th (Service) Battalion (St Pancras), The Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade).
He is buried in Puchevillers British Cemetery.
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- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Strelitz, Louis, cwgc.org. Retrieved 27 May 2015.