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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval (France) |
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Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval (France)
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)
Caterpillar Valley was the name given by the army to the long valley which rises eastwards, past "Caterpillar Wood", to the high ground at Guillemont. The ground was captured, after very fierce fighting, in the latter part of July 1916. It was lost in the German advance of March 1918 and recovered by the 38th (Welsh) Division on 28 August 1918, when a little cemetery was made (now Plot 1 of this cemetery) containing 25 graves of the 38th Division and the 6th Dragoon Guards. After the Armistice, this cemetery was hugely increased when the graves of more than 5,500 officers and men were brought in from other small cemeteries, and the battlefields of the Somme. The great majority of these soldiers died in the autumn of 1916 and almost all the rest in August or September 1918.
Caterpillar Valley Cemetery now contains 5,568 Commonwealth
burials and commemorations of the First World War. 3,795 of the burials are
unidentified but there are special memorials to 32 casualties known or believed
to be buried among them.
Amongst the graves are 11 for identified soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment.
and 1 former soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment.
The gravestone photos are by Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>.
Select one of the thumbnail images, below, for a larger sized image which
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Private Charles Barker, 4045.
5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Joseph and Emily Barker, of 512, Salem Avenue, Toronto, Canada. Born at Nelson, Lancs. Killed 15 September 1916. Aged 27. Enlisted Richmond (Yorks). |
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Private Edward Henderson, 5519.
5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of George Henderson, of Sherburn, Malton, Yorks. Killed 24 September 1916. Aged 21. Born Sherburn (Yorks), Enlisted Scarborough, Resided West Ayton (Yorks). |
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Private Philip Hodgson. 14736.
10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 13 July 1916. Aged 21. Born West Hartlepool, Enlisted West Hartlepool, Resided 1 Harrison Street West Hartlepool. |
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Private Samuel Ineson, 241348. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 September 1916. Enlisted Scarborough, Resided Norton (Malton). |
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Private William Albert Lawson,
2872. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William and Sarah A. Lawson, of Brickyard Cottages, Nafferton, Yorks. Born at Kilhawn, Lowthorpe, Yorks. Killed 22 September 1916. Aged 23. Enlisted Driffield. |
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Private Charles Maddison, 2258. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Amos and Annie S. Maddison, of Waterloo Farm, Leven, Hull. Killed 26 September 1916. Aged 20. Born Catterick, Enlisted Beverley, Resided Leven Carr (Near Beverley). |
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Private William Henry Massheder.
241555. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 17 September 1916. Enlisted Middlesbrough. |
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Private Ernest William Musson.30662.
1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 28107 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Margaret Wilson (formerly Musson), of 46, Hallifield St., Norton, Stockton-on-Tees. Killed 26 August 1918. Aged 30. Born Norton, Enlisted Richmond, Resided Norton. (Biographical information on Ernest William Musson is provided on the North East War Memorials Project website.) "THY TOUGH HATH STILL ITS ANCIENT POWER"
Photo : Claude Laignel of the Find a Grave website. |
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Private Frederick Smith. 2400.
5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 September 1916. Enlisted Norton Conyers, Resided Sharrow (Ripon). |
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Private Edgar Tyreman, 5522.
5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 24 September 1916. Born Whitby, Enlisted Whitby, Resided Staithes. |
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Private Wilfred Wainwright, 4050.
5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Brother of Benjamin Wainwright, of 65, Springstone Avenue, Ossett, Yorks. Killed 7 October 1916. Enlisted Richmond (Yorks). |
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Private Horace Willow, 2722. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Alfred and Annie Willow of 24 Yeoman St, Skelton in Cleveland, N Yorkshire. Killed on 16 September 1916. Aged 29. Enlisted Northallerton, Resided Skelton-in-Cleveland. |