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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Boston Cemetery |
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During the First World War the port of Boston was used to a small extent by hospital ships, and more than 4,000 sick and wounded passed through it. The First World War graves are scattered throughout the cemetery but most of those of the Second World War are in a special plot. Behind this plot is a memorial to the civilians of Boston killed by enemy action during the Second World War.
Boston Cemetery contains 50 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 30 of the Second. There is also one non-war grave in the war graves plot.
Two soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment are buried in Boston Cemetery.
We are extremely grateful to Steve Drury who has provided the photographs of the cemetery and the headstones of the Yorkshire Regiment soldiers.
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Private Bertie Brackenbury. 38437.
Depot the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John J. & Eliza Brackenbury. Husband of Beatrice Brackenbury of 18 Locomotive Street, Boston. Died at home 29 December 1917. Aged 35. Born Boston, Enlisted Richmond (Yorks). (Service and Pension records exist. Enlisted 15/1/1916. Wounded, - severe GSW to left arm, 13 / 3/ 1917, while serving with the 7th Battalion on the Somme. Discharged 2/8/1917.) "GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN" |
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Private Allan Edward Grahame Porter.
5/37900. 15th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, attached to 10th T R Battn. Died at home 24 March 1917. Aged 18. Born Stickford, Enlisted Boston. |
The
headstone for Private Brackenbury (left) in Boston Cemetery
Photo by Steve
Drury
The
headstone for Private Porter (left) in Boston Cemetery
Photo by Steve
Drury
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