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Houplines Communal Cemetery, France Houplines Communal Cemetery, France
First Name: Hugh Lawrence Last Name: AMSDEN
Date of Death: 27/05/1915 Lived/Born In: Bloomsbury
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London16
Memorial Site: 1. Dulwich College 2. Richmond Memorial

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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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