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3 unusual facts about Ginchy


Henry Fielding Dickens

A third son, Cedric 'Ceddy' Dickens, was killed on 9 September 1916 during the battle of Ginchy during World War I.

John Vaughan Campbell

On 15 September 1916 at Ginchy, France, during the Battle of the Somme, Lieutenant Colonel Campbell took personal command of the third line when the first two waves of his battalion had been decimated by machine-gun and rifle fire.

Kenneth Hutchings

Kenneth Lotherington Hutchings (born 7 December 1882 in Southborough, Kent, and killed in action on 3 September 1916 in Ginchy, France) was a cricketer who played for Kent and England.


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