Military History

Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave of Memorial
France and Flanders	British War & Victory Medals	Vis-en-Artois Memorial
Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
after April 1916	~	Burton Dassett
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted Date	Other War Memorials
Third Battle of Albert (1918)	April 1916 at Leamington Spa
Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units	Comments or Other Military Information
near Irles	Private 17727 Royal Warwickshire

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

On the 23 Aug 1918 the 12th battalion was ordered to attack and capture a line in enemy territory just west of Irles. The line is indicated on the map below. The attack with the battalion on the right of 95th Brigade, was delayed by the deep railway cutting, and now lagging behind the allied creeping artillery barrage, they came under close machine gun fire from the front and enfilade fire from the right, suffered heavy casualties and they were unable to advance beyond the ridge (120 line on map below) which overlooks Irles.

Area of Operations	Vis-en_Artois Memorial