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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood (Belgium, West Vlaanderen) |
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New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood (1)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>).
Polygon Wood (the "Polygone de Zonnebeke", or Polygoneveld)is a large wood 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.
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 2,108 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in Buttes New British Cemetery. 1,677 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials are erected to 35 casualties known or believed to be buried among them.
Amongst the graves are those for 17 soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are extremely grateful to Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) and Chris Cosgrove (<trainscpc@aol.com>) who have generously provided the photographs on this page.
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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. |
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Private Harold Close, 204062.
10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 4 October 1917. Enlisted Stockton-on-Tees. |
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Private Harold 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. |
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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 Richard James, 85856.
195th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), formerly 39244 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of George and Mary James, of Stockton-on-Tees; husband of Mary Lizzie James, of 24, Leeds St., Stockton-on-Tees. Killed on 11 August 1917. Aged 34. Born Stockton-on-Tees, Enlisted Stockton-on-Tees. "DEEPLY MOURNED
BY HIS WIFE MARY & SON HAROLD" |
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Private James Johnson, 12235.
10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 25 October 1917. Born Sunderland, Enlisted South Shields. |
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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 Stretford. |
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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. "AT REST"
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Private Charles Leask, 204289.
10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 5 October 1917. Born Elwick (Newcastle), Enlisted Newcastle. |
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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. "ON WHOSE SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY" |
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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. "UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS MOTHER FATHER WIFE & DAUGHTER" |
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Private George Pollard. 204047.
10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 4 October 1917. Born Bagby (Yorks), Enlisted Thirsk. |
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Private Duncan Stewart, 204253.
10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 5 October 1917. Born Newcastle, Enlisted Elwick, Resided Byker (Newcastle). |
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Private David Welsh, 32949.
10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 6 October 1917. Born South Bank (Yorks), Enlisted South Bank. |
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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. |
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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). "REST IN PEACE"
From the 1911 Census, Arthur William Wright was a farm worker on Sandford
Garnge Farm, Midge Hall, Belton (Yorks), - near Doncaster.He was born in Q1 1894 in Easingwold, - Father = Richard Robinson Wright and mother = Jane Anne Wright. No mention of him or parents in the 1901 census. On death, the sole legatee was "Mrs Marion Lindsay". Further information;- His mother died in 1895 and his father re-married. However he died in 1915. in the 1901 Census Arthur aged seven was living as a boarder with a family in Barlby headed by a Robert Lindsey who was a house painter and his wife Maria (Maruia / Marion). |
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New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood (2)
View towards the Battle Memorial of the 5th Australian Division
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>).
The Battle Memorial of the 5th Australian Division (1)
Photo : Chris Cosgrove (<trainscpc@aol.com>)
The Battle Memorial of the 5th Australian Division (2)
Photo : Chris Cosgrove (<trainscpc@aol.com>)
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New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood (3)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>).