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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Etretat Churchyard Extension (Seine-Maritime, France) |
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Etretat Churchyard Extension (1)
Photo by Christopher Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)
In December 1914, No.1 General Hospital was established in Etretat and it remained there until December 1918. In July 1917, it was taken over by No.2 (Presbyterian USA) Base Hospital Unit, but it continued to operate as a British hospital.
The first seven burials took place among the French civil graves but in February 1915, two plots were set aside for Commonwealth burials in the churchyard. These were filled by December 1916 and from then until December 1918, the extension was used.
Etretat Churchyard Extension contains 282 First World War burials and four
from the Second World War. There are also 12 German graves in the extension.
3 of the burials are those of soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are very grateful to Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) for having taken the photos of the cemetery and the Yorkshire Regiment headstones.
Click on thumbnail image of a headstone for a larger version of the photo which opens in a new window.
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Private Albert Ernest Hodges, 235497.
9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 5361 D L I. Died 13 October 1918. Born Hockley, Enlisted Southend, Resided Beckenham. |
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Private John Keegan, 28774. 9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Died 11 October 1918. Born Dewsbury (Yorks), Enlisted Dewsbury. |
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Private Benjamin Meakin, 29577. 13th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 30302 Sherwood Foresters. Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Meakin, of 106, High St., Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs. Died 16 December 1917. Aged 23. Born Bucknall (Staffs), Enlisted Stoke-on-Trent. "IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON. UPRIGHT & TRUE, ONE OF THE BEST. GOD GRANT TO HIM ETERNAL REST" |
Etretat
Churchyard Extension (2)
Photo by Christopher Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)