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Born Lambeth

Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetery, Belgium

On 10th May, 1915, the 8th Middlesex battalion of 85 Brigade, 28th Division moved into trenches south of the Ypres-Zonnebeke road where they remained until relieved on 12th May at which time they moved back to billets in Poperinghe. Walter Jasper died from wounds on 13th May but the battalion diary provides no further 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.