Current Information:

Age-36

Born-Lambeth

Served as WHITE

On 27th June, 1915, the 2nd Border battalion of 20 Brigade, 7th Division left their billets in Beuvry and moved into trenches at Cuinchy where they remained until relieved on 30th June. The battalion diary provides little information about this period spent in the front line so the circumstances of the death of William Tosdevine who was killed on 28th June, are not known. 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.