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Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium
First Name: Alexander Last Name: McLEOD
Date of Death: 07/03/1915 Lived/Born In: Kennington
Rank: Bandsman Unit: Royal Fusiliers3
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Age-22

Born-Edinburgh

Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium

 

On 4th March, 1915, the 3rd Royal Fusiliers battalion of 85 Brigade, 28th Division moved into the trenches to the east of Kemmel in Belgium where they remained until relieved on 16th March. Alexander McLeod was killed on 7th March but the battalion diary provides no further information concerning his death. 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. 

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