H A Chamen
Sunday 13th February 1916: The adjutant of the 2nd Battalion at
Maricourt on the Somme tells us that the French on their right have made an
attack on the village of Frise, taken by the Germans at the end of last month.
They have taken a hundred prisoners. The Battalion has lost the services of Second
Lieutenant Chamen who has been dispatched to 3rd Entrenching Battalion(1).
Source: X550/3/wd
(1) He would
rejoin on 4th June and be seriously in the Battle of the Somme in an attack on
Guillemont on 30th July, dying of wounds on 1st August.
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