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Born-Barking

Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Belgium

During June, 1915, the 1st Norfolk battalion of 15 Brigade, 5th Division were in trenches near Verbranden Molen to the south of Ypres during which time they sustained nearly 150 casualties of whom 22 were killed. One of these was Douglas Gordon who was killed on 6th June but the battalion diary provides no further information about 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.