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Born-Westminster

Bailleul Communal Cemetery, France

From 1st-15th November, 1914, the 3rd Rifle Brigade battalion of 17 Brigade, 6th Division were in the front line near La Chapelle Armentières, a sector of the Western Front where they would stay all that winter. The Battalion Diary makes little comment about these two weeks but it can be assumed that it was cold and wet and that they were subjected to regular periods of shell fire and the attention of enemy snipers. Patrols would have been sent out into no-man’s-land most nights and that there would have been casualties such as George White who was killed on 10th November.