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Menin Gate, Ypres Menin Gate, Ypres
First Name: Thomas Edgar Last Name: LANDER
Date of Death: 07/04/1915 Lived/Born In: Walworth
Rank: Private Unit: Dorset1
Memorial Site: Menin Gate, Ypres

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On 5th April, 1915, the 1st Dorset battalion of 15 Brigade, 5th Division moved into the front line north of the canal at Ypres where they remained until relieved two days later. Thomas Lander was killed here on 7th April but the battalion diary provides no further information concerning 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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