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Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, France Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, France
First Name: Frederick Last Name: DICKENS
Date of Death: 21/12/1914 Lived/Born In: King's Cross
Rank: Private Unit: Northamptonshire1
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Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, France

 

On 21st December, 1914, after nearly a month resting at Hazebrouck,  the 1st Northamptonshire battalion of 2 Brigade, 1st Division, marched to Le Touret which they reached at 4pm. Here they were ordered to attack and recover some trenches, about half a mile east of L’Epinette, that had been lost the previous day. At 7pm  the 1st Northamptonshire and 1st Loyal North Lancashire battalions moved forward and by 10pm the objective had been secured. Among the casualties sustained by 1st Northamptonshire was Frederick Dickens.

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