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Pte. Francis Edward Haigh
British Army 3rd Dragoon Guards
from:Wakefield, Yorks
(d.1st July 1915)
Francis Haigh arrived in the Ypres Salient on 18/5/1915.
On the 1st June 1915 he was killed in action; 13 days after joining his unit in the trenches.
Apparently on 1st June 1915, there was some heavy shelling of the British front line at Hooge, Belgium.
Private Francis Haigh is commemorated with others of the 3rd Dragoon Guards who have no known grave, on the relevant panel of The Menin Gate at Ypres.
Rest in Peace.