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Age-19

92, Amhurst Park, Stoke Newington

Wytschaete Military Cemetery, Belgium

On 13th February, 1915, the 1st Honourable Artillery Company battalion of 7 Brigade, 3rd Division left their billets in Locre and moved into the front line at Kemmel where they remained until relieved on 19th February. Philip Pakeman was killed on 17th February but the battalion diary makes no mention of casualties on this day. 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.