First Name: | Hugh Lawrence | Last Name: | AMSDEN | |
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Date of Death: | 27/05/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Bloomsbury | |
Rank: | Rifleman | Unit: | London16 | |
Memorial Site: | 1. Dulwich College 2. Richmond Memorial | |||
Current Information:Age-26 Great James Street, Bloomsbury Houplines Communal Cemetery, France
On 26th May, 1915, the 16th London battalion, then of 18 Brigade, 6th Division moved into trenches north of the River Lys near Houplines where they remained for the next two days. On 27th May, the day on which Hugh Amsden was killed, the battalion diary recorded work continued on a new fire trench and that Houplines was shelled during the day. |
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