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Age-41

72, St George's Way, Peckham

Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France

On 6th April, 1915, the 1st East Kent (Buffs) battalion of 16 Brigade, 6th Division, moved into the trenches at Rue de Bois near Fleurbaix in France where they remained until relieved on 12th April when they moved back to billets in Armentières before returning to the same trenches on 18th April. Alfred Dumbleton died from wounds on 19th April, after having been sent to a base hospital on the coast, but the exact date on which he was wounded is, as yet, unknown. The attrition rate among British soldiers on the Western Front was on average 300 each day and 60% of these were as a result of shellfire. When not involved in an actual battle it was either shell fire or a sniper’s bullet that caused most deaths and injuries.