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Age-19

36, Trinity Square, Borough

Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, France

On 6th May, 1915 the 24th London battalion of 142 Brigade, 47th Division left their billets and moved into trenches in the Dead Cow sector at Rue du Bois where they remained until relieved on 12th May. John Farrington was killed here on 7th May but, the battalion diary provides no further information concerning 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.