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Menin Gate, Ypres Menin Gate, Ypres
First Name: Andrew Joel Last Name: HUNT
Date of Death: 11/06/1915 Lived/Born In: Walthamstow
Rank: Corporal Unit: Essex2
Memorial Site: Menin Gate, Ypres

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On 6th June, 1915, the 2nd Essex battalion of 12 Brigade, 4th Division, left their billets and moved into support trenches in the rear of Turco Farm in the Ypres salient where they remained until 10th June when they moved into the front line at Turco Farm for nine days. Andrew Hunt was killed on 11th June but the battalion diary provides no further information about 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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