First Name: | Daniel | Last Name: | BROWN | |
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Date of Death: | 14/04/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Clerkenwell | |
Rank: | Private | Unit: | Shropshire Light Infantry2 | |
Memorial Site: | Menin Gate, Ypres | |||
Current Information:Age-27 6, Cyprus Street, Clerkenwell
On 11th April, 1915, the 2nd Shropshire Light Infantry of 80 Brigade, 27th Division, moved into the front line at Polygon Wood in the Ypres salient where they remained until relieved on 14th April, the day on which Daniel Brown lost his life. The battalion diary provides very little information about their time spent here so the circumstances behind his death are not known. 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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