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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery, Albert (France, Somme) |
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Bouzincourt
Ridge Cemetery, Albert - 1
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
Bouzincourt remained partly in German hands after the battles of March 1918. The eastern end of the village was attacked by the 12th and 18th Divisions at the end of June 1918, and cleared in the latter half of August. In the first week of September, Plot I of Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery was made by the V Corps Burial Officer, who cleared the battlefields and the remaining Plots were formed after the Armistice when 500 graves were brought in from the immediate neighbourhood. The cemetery now contains 709 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 313 of the burials are are unidentified and there is a special memorial to an officer of the 38th Division known to be buried in one of them.
Amongst the graves in this cemetery are those of 2 soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are extremely grateful to Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) who has generously provided the photographs of the cemetery and the headstones on this page.
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Private John William Hopkins, 123160. 38th Battalion Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), formerly 205427 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 24 April 1918. Born Leeds, Enlisted Ferryhill. |
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Private John Dixon Ogleby. 45931.
19th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, formerly 16733 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 14 June 1918. Born Sunderland, Enlisted Sunderland. |
Bouzincourt
Ridge Cemetery, Albert - 2
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)