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Age-22

SDGW-RIDGRAVE

1, Union Road, Leytonstone

Maroc British Cemetery, Grenay, France

40th Division, including 20th Middlesex of 121 Brigade, arrived in France in May 1916 and after a period of trench instruction, 121 Brigade moved into the front line at Maroc, close to Loos, on 3rd July, 1916. The Double Crassier and The Triangle were important features here and both had been fiercely contested during the Battle of Loos in 1915. The Battalion Diary recorded that the occasional shell, rifle grenade and minenwerfer was fired at them and that a machine gun post was hit and a machine gunner killed. It gives no other information about casualties but there were 4 men killed on 3rd July, one of them being William Redgrave.