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Age-27

59, Morant Street, Poplar

Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle-d'Armentieres, France

On 16th June, 1915, the 1st Middlesex battalion of 19 Brigade, which had just transferred to 27th Division, move into the front line at La Flamengerie Farm in the Bois-Grenier sector of the front line where they stayed until relieved on 22nd June. William Allison died from wounds on 20th June but the battalion diary provides no further information about his death. 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.