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11th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army) |
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12/09/1917 (Died of Wounds) |
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40 |
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William James Hammond was the son of William and Mary Jane Hammond. William was born in Castledawson about 1877. William married Isabella Hudson on the 5th June 1900 in the district of Magherafelt. He was a postman. William and Isabella had 5 children. William Hammond enlisted in Coleraine. He was wounded at the battle of Ypres. Lance Corporal William Hammond was serving with 11th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he died of wounds on 12th September 1917. He was 40 years old.
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Étaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne. During the First World War, the area around Étaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained.
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