First Name: | Herbert Charles | Last Name: | BURROWS | |
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Date of Death: | 11/05/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Southall | |
Rank: | Private | Unit: | Middlesex8 | |
Memorial Site: | Menin Gate, Ypres | |||
Current Information:Born-Shefford Bedfordshire
On 10th May, 1915, the 8th Middlesex battalion of 85 Brigade, 28th Division moved into trenches south of the Ypres-Zonnebeke road where they remained until relieved on 12th May at which time they moved back to billets in Poperinghe. Herbert Burrows was killed on 11th May 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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