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Chapelle-d'Armentieres Old Military Cemetery, France Chapelle-d'Armentieres Old Military Cemetery, France
First Name: Thomas Charles Last Name: BARRETT
Date of Death: 08/03/1915 Lived/Born In: Bermondsey
Rank: Rifleman Unit: Rifle Brigade3
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Born-Rotherhithe

Chapelle-d'Armentieres Old Military Cemetery, France

 

On 5th March, 1915, the 3rd Rifle Brigade of 17 Brigade, 6th Division moved into the front line near Armentières on the French-Belgian border where they remained until relieved on 9th March. Thomas Barrett was killed on 8th March but the battalion diary provides no further information regarding his death. The attrition rate among British soldiers on the Western Front was on average 300 each day and when not involved in an actual battle it was either shell fire or a sniper’s bullet that caused most deaths and injuries. 

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