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First Name: | Cecil John | Last Name: | WILKIE |
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Date of Death: | 15/06/1918 | Lived/Born In: | South Kensington | |
Rank: | Lance Corporal | Unit: | London23 | |
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Current Information:Age-22 75, Taybridge Road, Clapham Common 30, Seymour Place, South Kensington Bavelincourt Communal Cemetery, France
From 9th June to 19th June, 1918, the 23rd London battalion of 142 Brigade, 47th Division held the front line just to the east of the town of Albert, which had been captured by the Germans in their first Spring offensive of 1918. The line had now stabilised and the routines of trench had been largely re-established. The Battalion Diary recorded nothing about this tour of the front line trenches other than to mention the number of casualties that the battalion sustained on each day but there is no information regarding the causes of these casualties. However it is reasonable to assume that either shell fire, sniping or patrol work accounted for all or most of them. Cecil Wilkie was killed on 15th June. |
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