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The
Archangel Memorial
Photo : Avalon
Eastman
The ARCHANGEL MEMORIAL, which consists of panels fixed into the east wall of the Archangel Allied Cemetery, commemorates 219 British officers and men who died during the North Russian campaign and whose graves are not known.
The War Graves and Memorials in the Soviet Republics of Eastern Europe are a result of the campaigns of 1918-1920 in several parts of European Russia. These campaigns, which were the outcome of the Russian Revolution of November, 1917, are closely connected both with events in Asia (particularly in Persia and in Siberia) and with the general course of the War in the West. The continued German and Turkish threats to India by way of Persia and Afghanistan, and the crisis of 1918 in France caused by the withdrawal of Russia from the Entente, form the background to the North Russian Expedition and the Allied intervention in South Russia.
16 soldiers who served in the Yorkshire Regiment are commemorated on this memorial.
We are extremely grateful to Pavel Kvartainov, a zoologist (Ornithologist) at Moscow State University, who has photographed all of the memorial panels. Pavel has kindly provided this website with a file that contains all of these photographs.
Photographs of the panels on which soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment are commemorated, taken by Pavel Kvartainov, are shown below.
Also shown are general photos of the memorial from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, and a plan of the Archangel Allied Cemetery showing the location of the memorial in the cemetery.
Lieutenant Gerald Wallace Adam. 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment,
formerly Leicestershire Regiment. Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace Adam, of
Heaton Moor, Stockport. Died on 10 August 1919. Aged 20.
(Shown on the memorial as serving with the Leicestershire Regiment.)
Private Arthur Aram. 60724. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Arthur and Elizabeth Aram, of 29, Williams St., Parkgate, Rotherham;
husband of Vera Angela Aram, of 31, Church St., Greasbro Rotherham. Killed
5 May 1919. Aged 30.
Born Ilkeston (Derbyshire), Enlisted Parkgate, Resided Rotherham.
Private John Bates. 205526. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 3 April 1919.
Born Newcastle-on-Tyne, Enlisted Rowlandsgill (Durham).
Buried Bolshoi Ozerki Cem.
Private Reginald Bert Best. 64594. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment,
formerly TR/1/57822 20th T R Battn. Son of John William and Mary Best, of
18, Ernest Rd., Chatham. Killed 25 March 1919. Aged 21.
Born Battersea (London), Enlisted Chatham.
Private Hebert Clayton. 58043. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 2 April 1919.
Born Carlton (Nr Selby - Yorks), Enlisted Featherstone.
Buried Bolshoi Ozerki Cem.
Private William Cowlishaw. 64920. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment,
formerly 67812 S Staffs Regt. Killed 13 March 1919.
Born Derby, Enlisted Derby.
Buried Soroka Zavode Cem.
Private Sydney Albert Cutts. 57834. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 12 May 1919. Aged 24.
Born Woodhouse, Enlisted Sheffield.
Buried Onega Town Cem.
Private George Alfred Fensome. 65103. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment, formerly 2504 Hants Cyclists Battn. Son of George and Maria Fensome,
of 14, Brache St., Luton. Killed 31 August 1919. Aged 19.
Born Luton, Enlisted Luton.
Private Harry Griffiths. 57701. 13th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Owen and Maria Griffiths, of 3, Back Lumley St., Hightown, Castleford,
Yorks. Died 28 August 1919. Aged 22.
Born Castleford (Yorks), Enlisted Castleford, Resided Whitwood Mere (Castleford).
Lieutenant Howard Victor Hart, MC. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment,
formerly 6th Bn. London Regiment (City of London Rifles). Killed 23 March
1919. Aged 29.
Buried Bolshoi Ozerki Cemetery.
Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) provided the following
additional information on Lieutenant Hart;-
Howard Victor Hart was born at Marylebone, London in 1889 the son of Herbert
W & Ellen L Hart.
He enlisted as Pte 33845 in the Essex Regiment and was commissioned as a Lieutenant
in the 6th Battalion London Regiment (City of London Rifles) on 16 May 1917
before being posted to France four months later.
He was awarded the MC.
He resided at 19 Sutton Road, Muswell Hill, Middlesex.
In the 1911 Census he is recorded as a pupil at The Friends' School, Saffron
Walden.
From the official history of the Yorkshire Regiment in the First World War,
Lieutenant Hart is shown as joining the Yorkshire Regiment in the North Russia
Expeditionary Force in October 1918. He was killed, along with one other officer,
in an attack on the town of Bolshiozerki.
Private Arthur Morrell. 62918. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment,
formerly 366744 Northern Cyclists Battn. Killed 3 April 1919.
Born Bradford, Enlisted Bradford.
Captain Frank Bryan Parker. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, attached
to 6th Battalion. Son of Reginald B. and Margaret A. Parker, of Milford Hall,
South Milford, Yorks. Killed 23 March 1919. Aged 22.
Buried Bolshoi Ozerki Cem.
Private Thomas Henry Phillips. 63778. 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Died 4 March 1919.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Resided Middlesbrough.
Buried Soroka Zavoda Cemetery.
(Shown on the Archangel Memorial as "J Phillips".)
Lance Corporal Isaac Atkinson Rhodes. 62866. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment, formerly 27605 7th T R Battn. Killed 23 March 1919.
Born Keighley (Yorks), Enlisted Bradford, Resided Clayton (Bradford).
Buried Bolshoi Ozerki Cem.
2nd Lieutenant Eric Arthur Stephenson. Yorkshire Regiment, attached to the King's (Liverpool Regiment). Killed 7 February 1919.
In his Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment, Robert Coulson, the following is
stated;-
"Lieutenant Stephenson first served in the ranks of the Northumberland
Fusiliers before undergoing officer training and being commissioned into the
Yorkshire Regiment.
Lieutenant Stephenson was part of the North Russia Expeditionary Force, which
left the UK in October and November 1918.
From the Yorkshire regiment he was then attached to the 17th Battalion of
the King's Liverpool Regiment.
On 7th February 1919 the battalion took part in a combined attack with French
and US troops on the Bolshevik forces in the town of Avda. Enemy resistance
was found to be strong around the town and the allies were compelled to fall
back to their
original positions.
Wounded in this attack, Lieutenant Eric Arthur Stephenson was not among the
troops who fell back and it was assumed that he had died of his wounds or
been killed by the Bolsheviks in this action on 7th February 1919".
Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) has researched the family
background of Eric Arthur Stephenson and provides the following information;-
"Eric Arthur Stephenson was born in 1896 at Pocklington Yorkshire, the
son of Arthur Wilson and Frances Sarah Stephenson. He married Leonora Violet
Robinson in December Qtr 1917 at Leeds. In 1911, he was living at Welbury
near Northallerton where his father was the stationmaster working for the
N E Railway Co. He is the only Eric Stephenson listed in Welbury at that time.
He was commissioned into the Yorkshire Regiment in August 1917 (as recorded
in the London Gazette)."
Private Jesse Sykes. 57700. 13th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Died 16 July 1919.
Born Outwood (Yorks), Enlisted Pontefract, Resided The Lawns (Near Wakefield).
The Dedication on the Archangel Memorial.
Photo : Pavel
Kvartainov
Yorkshire Regiment Names (1) on the Archangel Memorial (inc. Lieut. G W Adam
included with the Leicestershire Regt.)
Photo : Pavel
Kvartainov
Yorkshire Regiment Names (2) on the Archangel Memorial.
Photo : Pavel
Kvartainov
The
Archangel Memorial (1)
Photo : Commonwealth
War Graves Commission
The
Archangel Memorial (2)
Photo : Commonwealth
War Graves Commission
Plan of the Archangel Allied Cemetery
Ref : ww1cemeteries.com
The location of the Archangel Allied Cemetery in the Russian Federation.
(Ref : Google
Maps)