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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery, South Africa |
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A View of Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery, South Africa.
Photo : Commonwealth
Graves Commission
Cape Town and the nearby Simon's Town were the scene of massive shipping movements (including hospital ships) during both World Wars. Many of the Commonwealth war graves of the First World War are associated with No 2 South African General Hospital at Maitland. 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 across the road from the cemetery at the Wingfield Aerodrome.
Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery contains 436 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 528 from the Second World War. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities within the cemetery and one non-war burial in the Commission's care.
1 soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is buried in this cemetery.
Private Joseph Stoney. 21581. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment, formerly 21811 West Yorkshire Regt. Son of Christopher and Margaret
Stoney, of Bewerley, Pateley Bridge, Harrogate, Yorks. Died 10 May 1917. Aged
32.
Born Pateley Bridge (Yorks), Enlisted Pateley Bridge.
Buried CAPE TOWN (MAITLAND) CEMETERY.
(Shown in CWGC register as being in the West Yorkshire Regiment, - presumably
died while on his way to join the Yorkshire Regiment; listed in the GH Gazette
database).
Photos of Cape Town's Maitland Cemetery can be found on
http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1058826
and of Private Stoney's grave on
http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=503967