Current Information:

45, Grove Road, Mile End

RE Farm Cemetery, Belgium

On 1st December, 1914, the 1st Dorset battalion of 15 Brigade, 5th Division, marched to Wulverghem where they moved into trenches north of the Wulverghem-Messines road where they remained until relieved on 3rd December and returned to billets in Dranoutre.

The enemy often seemed to know when an inter-battalion relief was taking place in the front line opposite them and then did as much as they could to disrupt it. This meant targeting the approach communication trenches with their artillery and keeping up a high level of machine-gun and rifle fire. Reliefs therefore were times of extra danger and many a soldier was killed or wounded during them. This may have been the fate of Sidney Drake on 3rd December.