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First Name: | Ronald | Last Name: | JOLLY |
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Date of Death: | 11/09/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Barnes | |
Rank: | Rifleman | Unit: | King's Royal Rifle Corps8 | |
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Current Information:Age-15 Born-Walworth Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery, Belgium On 6th September, 1915, 8th King’s Royal Rifle Corps of 41 Brigade, 14th Division went into the trenches in the north-east of the Ypres salient in the Haymarket sector near Wieltje. Conditions were awful. It had been raining a lot and the trenches were knee deep in mud but here they stayed, one company at a time in front whilst the others toiled away constructing dug-outs, until they were relieved on 21st September. On 11th September, 1915, Rifleman Jolly was was killed when he was hit in the head by a sniper’s bullet whilst in these trenches. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records Rifleman Jolly’s age as being 15. |
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