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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Achiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension |
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Achiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension.
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)
Achiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension contains 1,424 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 200 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to eight casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of ten casualties buried in other cemeteries whose graves could not be found. There are also 42 German war graves in the extension. The extension was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
13 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment are interred in this cemetery.
We are extremely grateful to Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) and Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) who have generously provided the photographs of the cemetery and the headstones on this page.
Click on the thumbnail image of a headstone for a larger version of the photo which opens in a new window.
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Serjeant Herbert Beadle, 200363.
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. R. Beadle, of Kirkgate, Thirsk, Yorks. Killed 25 June 1917. Aged 26. Born Thirsk, Enlisted Thirsk. "AT REST"
Photo : Christopher Weekes, (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) |
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Private Richard Bland. 201691.
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Richard and Ada Bland, of 9, Eston Grange, Grange Town, Yorks. Died 30 May 1917. Aged 21. Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Grangetown. Photo : Christopher Weekes, (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) |
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Private William Leslie Brewerton.
228465.
1st Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), formerly 9785 Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William Arthur and Constance C. L. Brewerton, of East Bank, Marple, Cheshire. Born at Wilmslow, Cheshire. Killed 23 August 1918. Aged 21. Born Wilmslow (Cheshire), Enlisted Oxford, Resided Chorlton-Cum-Hardy. "BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD" Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) |
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Private Thomas Warren Chirgwin.
46088. 12th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 187805 R E. Son of Charles and Elizabeth Warren Chirgwin, of Parr, Cornwall; husband of Mabel Irene Chirgwin, of Penzer House, Newlyn West, Penzance. Killed 7 January 1918. Aged 34. Born Paul (Cornwall), Enlisted Penzance, Resided Paul (Cornwall). "WORTHY
OF EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE" Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) |
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Lance Corporal Frank Cowling,
201714. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of James and Frances Cowling, of South Parade, Northallerton, Yorks. Killed 21 June 1917. Aged 20. Enlisted Northallerton. Photo : Christopher Weekes, (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) |
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Private John Thomas Hyde. 20765.
12th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mary Jane Goodchild; husband of Dorothy Jane Hyde, of 1, Cook St., Middlesbrough. Died 26 November 1917. Aged 36. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough. "GRANT HIM O LORD
ETERNAL REST" Photo : Christopher Weekes, (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) |
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Private William Mason. 235610.
13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 3271 Berks Regt. Killed 11 February 1918. Born Reading (Berks), Enlisted Reading. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) |
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Private Chapman McNeil, 241653.
5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 25 July 1917. Born Goathland (Yorks), Enlisted Whitby, Resided Grosmont S O. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) |
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2nd Lieutenant Walter Ernest Pacey.
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 27 June 1917. Photo : Christopher Weekes, (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) |
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2nd Lieutenant Cyril John Perkins.
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Norah G. Perkins, of 39, Mantilla Rd., Upper Tooting, London. Killed 27 June 1917. Aged 23. "FOR ENGLAND" Photo : Christopher Weekes, (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) |
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Lieutenant Christopher Butler Prior-Wandesforde.
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Capt. R. H. and Mrs. Prior-Wandesforde, of Castlecomer House, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny. Killed 27 June 1917. Aged 20. "BORN CASTLECOMER HOUSE IRELAND
I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE" Photo : Christopher Weekes, (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) |
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Cyril Ransome.
13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 15 January 1918. |
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Private Arthur Wood, 243318. 5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 28 July 1917. Born Harrogate, Enlisted Stockton-on-Tees, Resided Thornaby. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) |
Achiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension.
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)
Achiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension.
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)