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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Douai British Cemetery, Cuincy (France, Nord) |
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Douai
British Cemetery, Cuincy (1)
Photo by soilsister
of the Find a Grave website
Douai was occupied by French troops and the Royal Naval Air Service on the 22nd September, 1914, and captured by the Germans on the 1st October; it remained in enemy hands until the 17th October, 1918.
The 42nd Casualty Clearing Station was posted in the town from the 28th October, 1918, to the 25th November, 1919. Douai British Cemetery was begun at the end of October, 1918, and closed in November, 1919; but graves were brought into it later from neighbouring battlefields and from other burial grounds.
There are over 200, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, a small number are unidentified and a special memorial is erected to a soldier from the United Kingdom, buried in RAIMBEAUCOURT GERMAN CEMETERY, whose grave could not be found. The British Cemetery covers an area of 718 square metres and is enclosed by a low stone rubble wall.
Amongst the graves in Douai British Cemetery, Cuincy, are 2 for soldiers
who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
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Private Albert Toulon Blake. 63248.
2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), formerly 2748 Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of E. E. Blake, of 7, Portland Rd., West Green Rd., South Tottenham, London. Killed 12 October 1918. Aged 27. Born Paddington, Enlisted Mill Hill, Resided Tottenham. Photo by soilsister of the Find a Grave website |
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Private Harry Knaggs. 72496. 2nd Battalion the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), formerly 26591 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Levi and Jane Knaggs, of Halterley, Bilsdale, Yorks. Killed 14 November 1918. Aged 25. Born Bilsdale (Yorks), Enlisted Stokesley (Yorks). Photo by soilsister of the Find a Grave website |
Douai
British Cemetery, Cuincy (2)
Photo : Commonwealth
War Graves Commission