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 | | For the whole period of the 1916 Somme campaign, the British casualties were 419,000 (57,000 Missing in Action), which is equivalent to about one and a half times the present population of the Welsh capital, Cardiff. |
 | | The initial period of his service after recruitment as a Regular volunteer 'For the duration of the hostilities', was drastically changed from the normal routine of assignment to, and training in, an active service regiment, by an accident which occurred during training just six weeks after his assignment to the 5th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. |
 | | On the 18th October 1917, CHP was reposted, for the final time, to the 1/4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, and left from Southampton, by sea, for Alexandria, Egypt, as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (54th [East Anglian] Division). |
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