The battalion had started another trench tour at Hill 60 on July 10^th occupying trenches 39 through 41 and a Bombing Post at Trench 45. Throughout the tour the line was subjected to the usual heavy bombardment from trench mortars and danger from snipers remained constant. Four men were killed and thirty-one were wounded during the five day front line tour that ended on July 15^th.

27827 Lance Corporal Alfred Slinn was a 22 year old leather cutter originally from Northamptonshire when he attested into the 15^th Battalion at Valcartier in September 1914. He was originally assigned to No.1 Company and fought with them at 2^nd Ypres in April 1915 when the company was destroyed in the gas attack on the 24^th. Slinn was transferred to the battalion Grenade (Bombing) Section and fought at Festubert in May as well as the 1915 trench tours at Ploegsteert in the Fall-Winter and at Hill 60 in the Spring of 1916. Lance Corporal Slinn was KIA on July 12^th when he was hit in the head by sniper fire while at the Bombing Post. He is buried at Railway Dugouts Cemetery.

NOK: Son of Lovell Warren Slinn and Annie Slinn, of 20, Seymour St., St. James, Northampton, England.