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Rifle House Cemetery, Belgium Rifle House Cemetery, Belgium
First Name: Henry Last Name: PARTRIDGE
Date of Death: 09/05/1915 Lived/Born In: Homerton
Rank: Private Unit: Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry4
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Age-30

30, Church Road, Homerton

Rifle House Cemetery, Belgium

 

The 1/4th Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry battalion arrived in France at the end of March, 1915 to join 145 Brigade of 48th Division. At the end of April, 1915 they moved into trenches in Ploegsteert Wood and it was here that Henry Partridge was killed on 9th May when the battalion came under increased artillery fire as a result of the opening of the Battle of Aubers Ridge, a few miles to the south.

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