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First Name: | Arthur | Last Name: | LAMBERT |
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| Date of Death: | 19/02/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Peckham | |
| Rank: | Rifleman | Unit: | Rifle Brigade3 | |
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Current Information:Age-30 24, Brayards Road, Peckham Chapelle-d'Armentieres Old Military Cemetery, France
From 17th to 20th February, 1915, the 3rd Rifle Brigade of 17 Brigade, 6th Division were in the front line near Armentières on the French-Belgian border. Arthur Lambert was killed here on 19th February but the battalion diary provides no further information regarding his death. The attrition rate among British soldiers on the Western Front was on average 300 each day and when not involved in an actual battle it was either shell fire or a sniper’s bullet that caused most deaths and injuries. |
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