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Age-35

37, Adamson Road, Custom House

Bedford House Cemetery, Ypres

On 8th October, 1915,  4th Middlesex of 8 Brigade, 3rd Division moved into the front line near Hooge in the Ypres salient, a sector where there had been heavy fighting over the past two weeks. The next day, 9th October the enemy lobbed mortar shell into the reserve line occupied by D Company, which killed 3 men and wounded another four. Another man from A Company was killed by a sniper.