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Rue-des-Berceaux Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, France

At the start of the war the 2nd Middlesex battalion were in Malta but they soon returned to England where they joined 23 Brigade of 8th Division. The division landed in France on 5th November, 1914 and on 14th November 2nd Middlesex had their first experience of the trenches at Neuve Eglise. From 14th-19th December they were in the front line trenches at Richebourg near Neuve-Chapelle where James Fyfe was killed on 14th December, probably during the relief which was always a time of added danger.