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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Grevillers British Cemetery (Pas de Calais, France) |
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Grevillers British Cemetery (1)
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
The village of Grevillers was occupied by Commonwealth troops on 14 March 1917 and in April and May, the 3rd, 29th and 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Stations were posted nearby. They began the cemetery and continued to use it until March 1918, when Grevillers was lost to the German during their great advance. On the following 24 August, the New Zealand Division recaptured Grevillers and in September, the 34th, 49th and 56th Casualty Clearing Stations came to the village and used the cemetery again. After the Armistice, 200 graves were brought in from the battlefields to the south of the village, 40 from an adjoining cemetery made during the German occupation, and some from two other smaller cemeteries.
There are now 2,106 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in GREVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY. 189 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 18 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of two casualties, buried in Avesnes-les-Bapaume German Cemetery, whose graves could not be found. The cemetery also contains the graves of seven Second World War airmen, and 18 French war graves.
Within the cemetery stands the GREVILLERS (NEW ZEALAND) MEMORIAL which commemorates almost 450 officers and men of the New Zealand Division who died in the defensive fighting in the area from March to August 1918, and in the Advance to Victory between 8 August and 11 November 1918, and who have no known grave.
This is one of seven memorials in France and Belgium to those New Zealand soldiers who died on the Western Front and whose graves are not known. The memorials are all in cemeteries chosen as appropriate to the fighting in which the men died.
Amongst the graves are 11 for soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are very grateful to Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) for photos 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.
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Private Frederick Charles Allnutt.
29448. 13th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 28667 Notts & Derby Regt. Killed 24 November 1917. Born Chingford (Essex), Enlisted Harrow. Resided Wealdstone (Middx). |
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Lance Corporal Benjamin Brown.
59798. Machine Gun Corps, formerly 32630 Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 29 September 1918. Born Workington (Cumberland), Enlisted Stockton-on-Tees, Resided Middlesbrough. |
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Private Robert Reece Burgess.
41726. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 62787 R F A. Killed 6 May 1917 Born Derby, Enlisted Derby. (Note from Richard Roberts; "His birth was registered in the Dec Qtr. of 1896 (Derby). I have looked at the 1901 Census records and there is a Robert Burgess, age 4, son of George & Mary Burgess living at 40 Graham St., in the Parish of St James the Greater.") |
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2nd Lieutenant Francis Calvert.
2/4th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, formerly Private 2531 Yorkshire Regiment and Private 34872 Yorkshire Light Infantry. son of Francis Bingham and Mabel 25, Nansen Street, and formerly of 2, Nansen Street, Scarborough, Yorkshire. Killed 19 September 1917. Aged 21. |
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Private Fred Coates. 24499.
2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), formerly 32461 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Robert Coates; husband of Emily Coates, of 149, Hebden Rd., Haworth Brow, Keighley. Killed 5 September 1917. Aged 36. Born Oakworth (Yorks), Enlisted Leeds, Resided Keighley (Yorks). "EVER REMEMBERED"
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Private William Cooper. 49735.
2nd/4th Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), formerly 20532 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John Cooper, of Low Spennymoor; husband of Jane Anne Hood (formerly Cooper), of 9, King William St., Spennymoor, Co. Durham. Killed 30 September 1918. Aged 33. Born Spennymoor (Durham), Enlisted Ferryhill (Durham), Resided Spennymoor. |
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Private George Oliver Cross,
25310. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 26 June 1917. Born King's Sutton, Enlisted Stockton-on-Tees. |
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Private George Foster. 58348.
2nd/4th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, formerly 24669 the the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 29 September 1918. Born Morley (Yorks), Enlisted Morley. |
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Private George William Grayson,
36621. 7th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry, formerly 28072 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 1 October 1918. Born Thornton Dale (Yorks), Enlisted Pickering, Resided Thornton Marishes. |
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Private Albert Edward Hutchinson,
64017. 8th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), formerly 364 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 1 October 1918. Aged 32. Born Filey (Yorks), Enlisted Beverley (Yorks). |
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Private Charles William Robinson.
38349. 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Robert and Elizabeth Robinson, of I0, Linden Grove, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough. Died 6 May 1917. Aged 21. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough. "OF 35 BIRK SREET, MIDDLESBORO
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Grevillers
British Cemetery (2)
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)