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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Assevillers New British Cemetery (France, Somme) |
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Assevillers
New British Cemetery (1)
Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>
There are over 800 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in Assevillers New British Cemetery. Of these, two-fifths are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 25 soldiers and one airman from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of nine soldiers and two airmen from the United Kingdom, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery covers an area of 2,655 square metres and is enclosed by a stone rubble wall.
Of the 483 identified casualties, 7 soldiers who served in the Yorkshire Regiment are interred in this cemetery. 5 Yorkshire Regiment soldiers are buried in adjoining graves (see the photograph below).
We are extremely grateful to Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>, Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) and Tom Wheldon for photos of the headstones and the cemetery.
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Private Joseph Addison. 201885.
4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 13 February 1917. Born Sowerby (Yorks), Enlisted Thirsk. Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com> |
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Private Robert William Bell.
201542. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 13 February 1917. Enlisted Middlesbrough. Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com> |
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Private Thomas Finn. 203195.
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 14 February 1917. Born Kirton Lindsay (Lincs), Enlisted Scarborough. (Regimental Number given in SDGW as 8012) Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com> |
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Private James Ryder Harris.
200608. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of James and Jane Harris, of 13, Colville St., Middlesbrough. Died 14 February 1917. Aged 24. Born Ryder (*), Enlisted Middlesbrough. (*) As shown in SDGW, but data from Ancestry. co.uk shows his birth place to be Barnard Castle. Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com> |
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Private Thomas Clark Thompson.
202964. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas Thompson and Mary Thompson (formerly Clark) of Hetton-Le-Hole, Co. Durham. Husband of Mary Ann Thompson (formerly Churchill) of Hetton-Le-Hole, Co. Durham. Killed 14 February 1917. Aged 30. Born Easington Lane (Durham), Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring, Resided Hetton-le-Hole. Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com> |
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2nd Lieutenant Harry Whitley.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. attd. 2nd Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). Son of George and Fanny Whitley, of 7, Norfolk Place, Halifax. Killed 27 March 1918. Aged 26. Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com> |
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Private Walter Wombwell. 79035.
7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, formerly 243773 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Christopher and Mary Elizabeth Wombwell; husband of Ethel Wombwell, of 114, Brownlow Rd., Mansfield, Notts. Born at Southwell, Notts. Killed 23 March 1918. Aged 36. Born Thurgarton (Notts), Enlisted Derby, Resided Mansfield. "THOUGH LOST TO SIGHT
TO MEMORY DEAR EVER IN MY THOUGHTS" Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) and Tom Wheeldon. |
Assevillers
New British Cemetery (2)
Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>
Assevillers New British Cemetery (3)
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) and Tom Wheeldon.
The
Adjoining Graves of Thompson, Bell, Harris, Addison and Finn in Assevillers
New British Cemetery.
Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>