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Le Touret Memorial, France Le Touret Memorial, France
First Name: John William Last Name: McGOWN
Date of Death: 17/12/1914 Lived/Born In: Islington
Rank: Private Unit: Middlesex2
Memorial Site: Le Touret Memorial, France

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At the start of the war the 2nd Middlesex battalion were in Malta but they soon returned to England where they joined 23 Brigade of 8th Division. The division landed in France on 5th November, 1914 and on 14th November 2nd Middlesex had their first experience of the trenches at Neuve Eglise. From 14th-19th December they were in the front line trenches at Richebourg near Neuve-Chapelle where John McGown was killed on 17th December, but the battalion diary provided no information concerning his death. 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.

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