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Age-26

41, Fortess Road, Kentish Town

Houplines Communal Cemetery, France

From 9th -13th March, 1915, the 2nd Durham Light Infantry battalion of 18 Brigade, 6th Division were in the trenches at Houplines near Armentières in France. The battalion diary provides no information about this period spent in the front line so the circumstances of the death of Harry Stevens who was killed on 10th March are not known. 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.