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Age-23

Born-Rotherhithe

Voormezeele Enclosures1&2, Belgium

On 16th March, 1915, the 3rd King’s Royal Rifle Corps battalion of 80 Brigade, 27th Division, moved to trenches near Dickebusch to the south of Ypres, where they remained until relieved on 18th March. George Smith was killed here on 16th March but the battalion diary provides no further information. The attrition rate among British soldiers on the Western Front was on average 300 each day and 60% of these were as a result of shellfire. When not involved in an actual battle it was either shell fire or a sniper’s bullet that caused most deaths and injuries.