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Menin Gate, Ypres Menin Gate, Ypres
First Name: Richard James Last Name: SUMMERS
Date of Death: 20/03/1915 Lived/Born In: Holloway
Rank: Private Unit: Middlesex4
Memorial Site: 1. Stoke Newington Library 2. Menin Gate, Ypres

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Age-29

30, Devonshire Road, Holloway

Born-Camberwell

 

On 10th March, 1915, the 4th Middlesex battalion of 8 Brigade, 3rd Division left their billets in La Clytte and moved into trenches at Vierstraat a few kilometres to the south of Ypres in Belgium, where they remained until relieved on 26th March with the companies rotating from the front line to reserve positions on a regular basis. On 20th March, Richard Summers was one of the two men from D Company who were killed as they working on a new trench running south-west from the mound at St Eloi.

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