CORPORAL HENRY ARMITAGE
ARMY CYCLIST CORPS
1ST AUGUST 1917 AGE 39
BURIED: DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY EXTENSION, BELGIUM
Corporal Armitage was killed by a shell and thirteen months later his wife was informed that their son had also been killed, "somewhere in France". Strict censorship meant that soldiers were never allowed to say exactly where they were beyond the phrase somewhere in France. In fact James Armitage had been killed in the attack on the German Drocourt-Queant lines and as his body was never found he is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois memorial.