First Name: | Thomas Lancelot Gawain | Last Name: | TURNBULL | |
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Date of Death: | 15/04/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Barnet | |
Rank: | Private | Unit: | Honourable Artillery Company1 | |
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Current Information:Age-22 Enlisted-Armoury House, Shoreditch Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Belgium
On 12th April, 1915, the 1st Honourable Artillery Company battalion of 7 Brigade, 3rd Division moved into the front line at St Eloi, just to the south of Ypres, where they remained until relieved on 16th April. Thomas Turnbull was wounded here on 14th April and died from his wounds on the following day 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. |
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