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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Buttes New British Cemetery, Belgium |
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Andrea Waldron(<andreawaldron2@hotmail.com>) visited the Buttes New British Cemetery. Andrea has kindly supplied photos of the cemetery and of some of the men of the Yorkshire Regiment who are amongst several who are buried there. Below are Andrea's photos, and information on the cemetery shown below them.
Andrew Mitchell (<andpmitch@hotmail.com>) has also contributed a photo of the grave of a soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment buried in this cemetery.
Other soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment also buried in Buttes New British Cemetery but whose graves have not been photographed are also listed.
Buttes New British Cemetery. Photograph by Andrea Waldron (<andreawaldron2@hotmail.com>)
Buttes New British Cemetery. Photograph by Andrea Waldron (<andreawaldron2@hotmail.com>)
The Grave of Private D Welsh in Buttes New British Cemetery. Photograph by Andrea
Waldron (<andreawaldron2@hotmail.com>)
Private David Welsh, 32949. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 6 October 1917.
Born South Bank (Yorks), Enlisted South Bank.
Also buried in Buttes New British Cemetery;-
Private William Charles Bishop, 34177. 8th Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment. Formerly 16/21741 16th Battalion Cheshire Regiment. Son
of David Bishop, of 3/57, Price St., St. Mary's, Birmingham. Killed 19 October
1917. Aged 23.
Born Birmingham, Enlisted Birmingham.
Private Harold Close, 204062. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 4 October 1917.
Enlisted Stockton-on-Tees.
Private H Edmondson, 203711. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 4 October 1917.
Born Nelson (Lancs), Enlisted Nelson (Lancs).
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Private Edward Fitzhenry, 41851.
10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Formerly 160320 RFA. Killed 5 October
1917. Born Liverpool, Enlisted Liverpool, Resided Kirkdale. (right hand grave in this photo) |
Private Herbert Garwood Ford, 33186. 10th Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment. Formerly 3219 Suffolk Regt. Killed 4 October 1917.
Born Bury St. Edmunds (Suffolk), Enlisted Bury St. Edmunds.
(Listed in SDGW as "Herbert Garwood", - NOT Ford)
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Private James Johnson, 12235. 10th Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 25 October 1917. Born Sunderland, Enlisted South Shields. |
Private William Joseph Lamb, 202798. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of James Albert Lamb, of 111, Cyprus St., Stretford, and the late
Ellen Lamb; husband of Mary Agnes Lamb, of 33, Urmston Lane, Stretford, Manchester.
Killed 5 October 1917. Aged 33.
Born Salford (Lancs), Enlisted Manchester, Resided Streford.
Private Arthur Lax, 36373. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Tom and Alice Lax, of 74, Commercial St., Rothwell, Leeds. Killed 4 October
1917. Aged 22.
Born Leeds, Enlisted Leeds.
Private Charles Leask, 204289. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 5 October 1917.
Born Elwick (Newcastle), Enlisted Newcastle.
Private James McPartland, 201634. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Mr. M. and Mrs. C. McPartland, of 5, Ann St., South Bank, Middlesbrough.
Killed 5 October 1917. Aged 20.
Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Private Tom Frederick Perry, 202573. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Husband of Mrs. E. Perry, of 130, Hardy St., Newland, Hull. Killed
4 October 1917. Aged 29.
Enlisted Hull.
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Private George Pollard. 204047. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 4 October 1917. Born Bagby (Yorks), Enlisted Thirsk. Photo by Andrew Mitchell (<andpmitch@hotmail.com>) |
Private Duncan Stewart, 204253. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 5 October 1917.
Born Newcastle, Enlisted Elwick, Resided Byker (Newcastle).
Private Joseph Aloysius White, 203865. 10th Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Joseph and Elizabeth White, of Mulgrave Farm, Ugthorpe,
Egton Bridge, Yorks. Killed 4 October 1917. Aged 22.
Born Ugthorpe (Yorks), Enlisted Ugthorpe.
Corporal Arthur William Wright, 12137. 10th Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment. Native of Selby, Yorks. Killed 6 October 1917. Aged 23.
Born Easingwold (Yorks), Enlisted Leeds, Resided Selby (Yorks).
The following information, and photo, is taken from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.
Polygon Wood is a large wood 1.6 kilometres south of the village of Zonnebeke which was completely devastated in the First World War. The wood was cleared by Commonwealth troops at the end of October 1914, given up on 3 May 1915, taken again at the end of September 1917 by Australian troops, evacuated in the Battles of the Lys, and finally retaken by the 9th (Scottish) Division on 28 September 1918. On the Butte itself is the Battle Memorial of the 5th Australian Division, who captured it on 26 September 1917. POLYGON WOOD CEMETERY is an irregular front-line cemetery made between August 1917 and April 1918, and used again in September 1918. The cemetery contains 103 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 17 of them unidentified. 60 of those buried here served with the New Zealand forces. There is also one German grave within the cemetery. A walled avenue leads from Polygon Wood Cemetery, past the Cross of Sacrifice, to the BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY. This burial ground was made after the Armistice when a large number of graves (almost all of 1917, but in a few instances of 1914, 1916 and 1918) were brought in from the battlefields of Zonnebeke. There are now 2,103 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,675 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials are erected to 35 casualties known or believed to be buried among them.
Aerial View of Buttes New British Cemetery