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First Name: | Arthur | Last Name: | HILLARD |
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Date of Death: | 10/08/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Mortlake | |
Rank: | Private | Unit: | East Surrey1 | |
Memorial Site: | Mortlake, St Mary | |||
Current Information:Age-31 103, Avondale Road, Mortlake Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery, Somme At the end of July 1915, 5th Division moved south to the Somme, a section of the front in the process of being taken over by the British from the French. During the night of 9/10 August, 1915, 1st East Surrey, 14 Brigade relieved a French unit in the Maricourt trenches from the Moulin de Fargny on the River Somme to the Maricourt-Hardecourt road. The long entry in the battalion diary shows an appreciation of the deep, dry trenches and dug-outs of the Somme compared with the muddy and often water logged conditions in Flanders. It was also, at this time, a quiet area of the line and 1st East Surrey suffered only twenty casualties during the rest of August in these trenches, a low figure for the Western Front in general. |
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