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Born & Resident-Rainham

Talana Farm Cemetery, Belgium

In June 1915, 11 Brigade, 4th Division took over from the French the trenches around Boesinghe where they crossed the Yser canal in the northern part of the Ypres salient and what was then, the extreme left of the British line. On 1st July, 1915, the 1st Hampshire battalion moved into trenches here until relieved on 4th July the day on which Harry Davis was killed 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.