Yorkshire Regiment War Graves
Yorkshire Regiment War Graves, -
Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-Lestree
(France, Pas de Calais)
Yorkshire Regiment War Graves
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Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-L'Estree (1) Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-L'Estree (1)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)

Sauchy-Lestree was captured by the 56th (London) Division on 27 September 1918, and the cemetery was made and used by fighting units during the following five weeks. It contained 50 burials at the Armistice, and others were then added from the surrounding battlefields and from the following cemeteries:-

EPINOY ROAD CEMETERY, EPINOY, was on the road from Sauchy-Lestree to Epinoy, just West of the point where it crosses the road from Sauchy-Cauchy to Haynecourt. It was made by fighting units, and it contained the graves of 27 soldiers (mainly 2nd Yorkshire Regiment) and one airman from the United Kingdom and four soldiers from Canada, all of whom fell between the 26th September and the 14th October, 1918.

LECLUSE CRUCIFIX CEMETERY was on the Southern outskirts of Lecluse village, and it contained the graves of 16 Canadian soldiers who fell in October, 1918.

Chapel Corner Cemetery contains 178 First World War burials, 29 of which are unidentified.

Amongst the graves are those for 20 soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.

We are very grateful to Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) for photographs of the cemetery and headstones.

Click on the thumbnail image of a headstone for a larger version of the photo which opens in a new window.

2nd Lieutenant Benjamin Sydney Appleyard.
2nd Lieutenant Benjamin Sydney Appleyard.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mrs. Jane Ann Appleyard, of 233, Hall Lane, Bradford. Killed 29 September 1918. Aged 27.


"MAY HIS REWARD
BE AS GREAT AS HIS SACRIFICE"
Lance Serjeant John Thomas Bailes, 8000.
Lance Serjeant John Thomas Bailes, 8000.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Annie Bailes of 5, Clarence Row, Portrack, Stockton-on-Tees. Native of Stockton-on-Tees. Killed 27 September 1918. Aged 24.
Born Stockton, Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Stockton-on-Tees.
Private George Baul. 115309.
Private George Baul. 115309.
11th Battalion Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), formerly 205081 Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 27 September 1918.
Born Tanfield (Durham), Enlisted Durham, Resided Brancepeth (Durham).
Private George Chapman. 18946.
Private George Chapman. 18946.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 29 September 1918.
Born Nether Silton, Enlisted Northallerton, Resided Yafforth Grange.
Private Joseph Dempsey, 10968.
Private Joseph Dempsey, 10968.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Adopted son of Mrs. Kate Readman, of 7, Albion Place, Whitby, Yorks. Native of Whitby. Killed 29 September 1918. Aged 24.
Born Leeds, Enlisted Whitby.
Private Harris Fox. 27527.
Private Harris Fox. 27527.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 29 September 1918. Aged 29.
Born Bradford, Enlisted Bradford.

(In the 1911 Census, Harris Fox was living at 19 Collins Street, Great Horton, Bradford, and was working as a Dyer.
He was aged 22, - therefore born ca. 1889. Also in the household were his parents, Festus Fox and Martha Fox, and 3 sisters.)


Private Ernest Goldberg. 41429.
Private Ernest Goldberg. 41429.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 32609 Northumberland Fus. Son of Louis Hayman Goldberg and Bertha Goldberg. Native of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Killed 29 September 1918. Aged 21.
Born Newcastle, Enlisted Newcastle.

"NOBLE IN LIFE
NOBLE IN DEATH"
**Private Goldberg was one of 16 soldiers who served in the Yorkshire Regiment who are commemorated in the British Jewry Book of Honour. Of the 50,000 Jews who served with the British and Colonial Forces during the First World War, 2,324 lost their lives and are commemorated in this book.
Private Harold David Aarons, 43067
Private William Russell Green. 33514.
Private William Russell Green. 33514.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 32035 17th Hussars Regt. Son of William R. and Mary Green, of Aslackby Fen, Pointon, Billingborough, Lincs. Killed 29 September 1918. Aged 25.
Born Market Deeping Lines, Enlisted Bourne, Resided Falkingham.

"GONE THOU ART
BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
WE SHALL MEET AGAIN"
Serjeant William Henry Head. 10050.
Serjeant William Henry Head. 10050.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 28 September 1918.
Born Cheltenham, Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Brotton (Yorks).
Lance Corporal James Hunter, 38384.
Lance Corporal James Hunter, 38384.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 27 September 1918.
Born Clydesdale (Dumfries), Enlisted Bishop Auckland, Resided New Shildon.
Private Bradley Jowett. 30542.
Private Bradley Jowett. 30542.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas Jowett, of Moorside Farm, Allerton, Bradford. Killed 29 September 1918. Aged 22.
Born Allerton (Bradford), Enlisted Bradford, Resided Allerton.
Private Joseph McKenna. 20187.
Private Joseph McKenna. 20187.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 29 September 1918.
Born Strabane (Tyrone, Ireland), Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Private Tom Metcalfe. 26802.
Private Tom Metcalfe. 26802.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Brother of Mrs. M. A. Kirkbride, of Meaden, Wyoming, U.S.A. Died 4 October 1918. Aged 33.
Born Hawes, Enlisted Richmond (Yorks).


"GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN"
Private Alexander Mocock. 35829.
Private Alexander Mocock. 35829.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly R/36297 K R R C. Killed 27 September 1918.
Born Stratford (Essex), Enlisted Stratford..
Lance Serjeant Cecil Charles Morley. 9944.
Lance Serjeant Cecil Charles Morley. 9944.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Harry and Emily Morley, of 15, Station Rd., St. Paul's Cray, Kent. Native of Sedlescombe, Battle, Sussex. Killed 27 September 1918. Aged 24.
Born Sedlescombe (Battle - Sussex), Enlisted Woolwich, Resided Cray (Kent).


" LOVED BY ALL"
Private John Parsons. 35824.
Private John Parsons. 35824.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 95258 R F A. Killed 29 September 1918.
Born Southwark, Enlisted London, Resided Southwark (E).

(Listed in CWGC register as "T Parsons"; shown in GH Gazette database as "J Parsons")
Private Patrick St. George. 19749.
Private Patrick St. George. 19749.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 29 September 1918.
Born Newcastle, Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring, Resided Fencehouses.
Corporal John George Sidgwick. 21203.
Corporal John George Sidgwick. 21203.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas and Ann Rebecca Sidgwick; husband of Nellie Sidgwick, of 36, Millbank St., South Bank, Yorks. Killed 6 October 1918. Aged 36.
Born North Ormesby, Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided South Bank.


"THY WILL BE DONE"
Private Eli Staples, 12319.
Private Eli Staples, 12319.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 4 October 1918.
Born Middleton (Bishop Auckland), Enlisted Shiney Row (Binchester).
2nd Lieutenant Jim Stembridge.
2nd Lieutenant Jim Stembridge.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William and Emma Stembridge; husband of Florence Stembridge, of 69, Galgate, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham. Killed 29 September 1918. Aged 27.


" AT REST"

The two photos below are by Graham Foster (<grahamfoster1uk@btinternet.com>), - a great nephew of Harris Fox, who is interred in this cemetery.

Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-L'Estree (2)
Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-L'Estree (2)
Photo : Graham Foster (<grahamfoster1uk@btinternet.com>).

Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-L'Estree (3)Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-L'Estree (3)
Photo : Graham Foster (<grahamfoster1uk@btinternet.com>).

An Unknown Soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment in Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-L'Estree
An Unknown Soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment in Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-L'Estree
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)

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