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Enlisted-Richmond

On 31st May, 1918, the 18th Lancashire Fusiliers battalion of 104 Brigade, 35th Division left Hédauville and moved towards the front to take part in an attack on Aveluy Wood, to the north of the town of Albert on the Somme battlefield. On the following day, 1st June, 1918, the attack was launched and although they managed to reach their objective they suffered over two hundred casualties in doing so and  were unable to hold on to their gains. That evening they were relieved and moved back to Hédauville. One of their casualties was Alfred Appleton.