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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Cape Town (Plumstead) Cemetery, South Africa |
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A View of Cape Town (Plumstead) Cemetery, South Africa.
Photo : Alta Griffiths (Genealogical
Society of SA - GSSA)
Cape Town and the nearby Simon's Town were the scene of massive shipping movements (including hospital ships) during both World Wars, and there were military hospitals at Maitland and Wynberg. During the Second World War, naval and maritime air operations were conducted from the area. Instruction under the Empire Air Training scheme was conducted at 65 and 66 Air School at Youngsfield Aerodrome in the Wynberg area, and the Fleet Air Arm was established at the Wingfield Aerodrome.
Cape Town (Plumstead) Cemetery contains 145 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 97 from the Second World War. Also in the Commission's care within the cemetery are three war graves of other nationalities, and the graves of three civilian building contractors, buried in a communal grave with service personnel, who were killed in an aircraft crash at Elandsfontein whilst inspecting sites for fortification.
1 soldier who apparently served with the Yorkshire Regiment is buried in this cemetery.
Serjeant C T Sherston, 241695. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Died 27 May 1919.
Absolutely nothing else can be found about this soldier. There is not even
a "C T Sherston" listed in the Birth / Marriage Index. There are
no records of a man in the Yorkshire Regiment with the above surname.
Also curious is what a soldier of the 4th Battalion was doing in South Africa,
unless he was on his way to the Garrison in India and died en-route. But the
4th Battalion had been disbanded long beforehand.
Serjeant C T Sherston's Headstone in Cape Town (Plumstead) Cemetery, South
Africa.
Photo : André van Wyk (Genealogical
Society of SA - GSSA)