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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery ( France, Somme) |
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Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery (1)
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The village of Epehy was captured at the beginning of April 1917. It was lost on 22 March 1918 after a spirited defence by the Leicester Brigade of the 21st Division and the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers. It was retaken (in the Battle of Epehy) on 18 September 1918, by the 7th Norfolks, 9th Essex and 1st/1st Cambridgeshires of the 12th (Eastern) Division.
The cemetery takes its name from the Ferme du Bois, a little to the east. Plots I and II were made by the 12th Division after the capture of the village, and contain the graves of officers and men who died in September 1918 (or, in a few instances, in April 1917 and March 1918). Plots III-VI were made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields surrounding Epehy and smaller cemeteries.
The cemetery now contains 997 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 235 of the burials are unidentified but there are additional special memorials to 29 casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and to two casualties buried in Epehy New British Cemetery, whose graves could not be found when that cemetery was concentrated.
We are extremely grateful to Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) who has generously provided the photographs on this page.
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Lance Corporal Ebenezer
Auld. 19199. 10th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Ebenezer and Margaret Auld, of 3630, Brookdale Avenue, E., Oakland, California, U.S.A. Born in Scotland. Killed 17 December 1917. Aged 26. Born Dunbarton (Scotland), Enlisted London, Resided Patrick Hill (Glasgow). "HE HAS FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT"
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Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery (2)
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Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery (3)
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Headstones for 5 German Soldiers in Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery, including those
of Unknown Soldiers (Centre 3)
"Ein Unbekannter Deutsche Krieger"
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