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Pte. Frederick Stanley Daymond
7th (Service) Battalion
from:Bovey Tracey, Devon
(d.22nd Sept 1917)
Officers and men of the 7th. Somerset Light Infantry were conveyed in buses to Dawson's Corner, Elverdinghe Road (NW of Ypres) on the 22nd. September 1917 to provide carrying parties in support of the attack on the German's Eagle Trench, east of Langemarck which was planned for the 22nd but had to be postponed until the 23rd.
On the 22nd German Gotha aircraft dropped 2 bombs on the Somerset's tented camp, killing 8 and wounding 22. Those killed were Privates Shier, Gillett, Haines, Jarris, Chamberlain, Price, Daymond and Callow.