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Age-34

21, Catherine Street, Lambeth

Estaires Communal Cemetery, France

The Battle of La Bassé

This was fought by II Corps (3rd and 5th Divisions) between 10th October and 2nd November 1914 and as the name suggests it focused on an area around the town of  La Bassée in northern France. It was part of the Race to the Sea and it determined the line of the Western Front in that sector. There were some initial British successes but La Bassée remained firmly in German hands. German reinforcements arrived and the village of Neuve Chapelle was captured by them. Towards the end of October, the fighting on this front died down as the attention of both armies switched to Ypres. 

Timothy Offer died from unspecified causes on 5th November, 1914, while serving with the Royal Army Service Corps. The Lahore Division was part of the Indian Army which arrived in France in September, 1914