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Born-Barking

Dranouter Churchyard, Belgium

On 24th March, 1915, the 1st Suffolk battalion of 84 Brigade, 28th Division, moved into the front line at Kemmel in Belgium where they remained until relieved on 28th March. The battalion diary provides little information about this period spent in the front line so the circumstances of the death of Bertie Brown who died from wounds on 26th March are not known. 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.