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Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-le-Grand, France Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-le-Grand, France
First Name: Sidney Leonard Last Name: BROWN
Date of Death: 09/07/1917 Lived/Born In: Highbury
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Middlesex21
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Age-21

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Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-le-Grand, France

 

From 1st July to 11th July, 1917, the 21st Middlesex battalion of 121 Brigade, 40th Division were holding the front line in the Gauche Wood sector of the front line near Villers-Guislain, south of Cambrai. During the last few days of this tour they were subjected to some heavy shelling from the German artillery which resulted in a number of casualties. One of these was Sidney Brown who was killed on 9th July.

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