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Age-21

7, Aldred Road, West Hampstead

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 Herbert Parsons was killed on 24th March, the battalion diary recorded his death on 23rd 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.