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Houplines Communal Cemetery, France

For most of the winter of 1914-1915, the 16th London battalion of 18 Brigade, 6th Division were holding trenches opposite the village of Frelinghien on the French-Belgian border just to the north of Armentières with a system of reliefs whereby individual companies moved back for 4 day periods of rest. The battalion diary entry for 27th February, the day on which Samuel |Billing was killed, recorded that there was a certain amount of sniping taking place throughout the day.