First Name: | Peter | Last Name: | FITCH | |
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Date of Death: | 26/03/1915 | Lived/Born In: | St. John's Wood | |
Rank: | Private | Unit: | Honourable Artillery Company1 | |
Memorial Site: | St John's Wood, St Mark | |||
Current Information:Enlisted-Armoury House, City Voormezeele Enclosures1&2, Belgium
On 23rd March, 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 27th March. Although records, including those of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission show that Peter Fitch was killed on 26th March, the battalion diary recorded his death on 25th March. 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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