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First DCLI Cemetery, The Bluff, Belgium First DCLI Cemetery, The Bluff, Belgium
First Name: Sidney William Last Name: CHIPPERFIELD
Date of Death: 26/05/1915 Lived/Born In: Clerkenwell
Rank: Private Unit: Cornwall Light Infantry1
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First DCLI Cemetery, The Bluff, Belgium

 

During the second half of May, 1915 the 1st Cornwall Light Infantry battalion of 14 Brigade5th Division were holding the trenches on Hill 60 just to the south of Ypres. On 26th May, the day on which Sidney Chipperfield was killed, the battalion were hard at work digging new saps while under shell fire.

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