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Dartmoor Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt, France

12th Middlesex of 54 Brigade, arrived in France in July 1915 along with the rest 18th Division and  in August moved to the Somme, a sector of the Western Front that had recently been taken over from the French. On 21st October, 1915, 12th Middlesex, in the front line near Meaulte, had to deal with a considerable number of German trench mortars which destroyed both parapet and parados in some places along their trench line and which killed three of their number, including Second Lieutenant Wallace, who was the first officer of 12th Middlesex to lose his life.