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Enlisted-Stratford

On 1st February, 1915, the 1st Yorkshire light Infantry battalion of 83 Brigade, 28th Division moved to Ypres where they relieved French troops in trenches either side of the Ypres-Comines canal. On the following day, 2nd February, D Company, in the front line to the north of the canal, came under heavy shell fire between 11 and 11.30am and then again for an hour in the afternoon, from 3-4pm. No infantry attack followed as some expected it might but there were thirty casualties from the shelling. At some stage of the day, Arthur Vanhinsbergh was killed.