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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Bard Cottage Cemetery ( West-Vlaanderen) Belgium |
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Bard Cottage Cemetery (1)
Photo : Dave Elcoate (<drdavesongs@hotmail.co.uk>)
For much of the First World war, the village of Boesinghe (now Boezinge) directly faced the German line across the Yser canal. Bard Cottage was a house a little set back from the line, close to a bridge called Bard's Causeway, and the cemetery was made nearby in a sheltered position under a high bank.
Burials were made between June 1915 and October 1918 and they reflect the presence of the 49th (West Riding), the 38th (Welsh) and other infantry divisions in the northern sectors of the Ypres Salient, as well as the advance of artillery to the area in the autumn of 1917. After the Armistice, 46 graves were brought in to Plot VI, Row C, from the immediate area, including 32 from MARENGO FARM CEMETERY (this was located a few hundred metres to the south of Bard Cottage, on the same side of the road. It was used from June 1915 to August 1916).
There are now 1,639 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 39 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate three casualties known to be buried among them.
Amongst the graves in Bard Cottage Cemetery are 4 for soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are very grateful to Dave Elcoate (<drdavesongs@hotmail.co.uk>) and Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) who have provided photos of the cemetery and the headstones.
Select a thumbnail image, below, for a larger sized image which opens in a new window.
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Lieutenant Arnold Leslie Duddell.
3rd Battalion the South Staffordshire Regiment, attached to the 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Albert and Minnie Duddell, of Tettenhall, Wolverhampton. Killed 27 Septembare 1917. Aged 20. "THEIR REWARD IS WITH THE LORD"
Photo : International Wargraves Photography Project on the Find
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2nd Lieutenant Francis William Alexander
Faithfull. 3rd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, formerly 11th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the Rev. Robert Colquhoun Faithfull and Felicia Amy Faithfull, of Shrub House, Copford, Colchester. Late of Peakirk Rectory, Peterborough. Killed 3 July 1915. Aged 18. Photo : International Wargraves Photography Project on the Find a Grave website |
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Sapper Edgar Bramley Hirst, 312424.
H.Q. Signal Coy. Royal Engineers, formerly 36335 the Yorkshire Regiment. Only son of Arthur Ed. and Frances M. Hirst, of 2, Oakes Rd., Lindley, Huddersfield. Killed 17 November 1917. Aged 25. Born Huddersfield (Yorks), Enlisted Huddersfield (Yorks).
"RESTING IN JESUS
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)HE AWAITS REVEILLE" |
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Private Frederick William Thorborn,
38557. 2nd (H S) Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Transferred to 206396 64th Coy Labour Corps. Husband of Marjorie Thorborn, of Fenwick Steads, Belford, Northumberland. Killed 7 September 1917. Aged 35. Born Alnwick (Northumberland), Enlisted Alnwick, Resided Abberwick (Alnwick). (Private Thorborn enlisted in the 4th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (2474) on 13 June 1916, and was transferred to the 2nd (H S) Garrison Battalion Yorkshire Regiment on 2 September 1916. He joined the Labour Corps on 22 May 1917, and was posted overseas on 20 June 1917.) Photo : Dave Elcoate (<drdavesongs@hotmail.co.uk>) |
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Corporal Leonard Yates. 18838. 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Samuel and Sarah Yates, of Wigan, England; husband of Lilian Williams (formerly Yates), of Duncans, British Columbia, Canada. Killed 9 October 1917. Aged 24. Born Sheffield, Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Wigan. Photo : Dave Elcoate (<drdavesongs@hotmail.co.uk>) |
Bard Cottage Cemetery (2)
Photo : Dave Elcoate (<drdavesongs@hotmail.co.uk>)
Bard
Cottage Cemetery (3)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)