Yorkshire Regiment War Graves, - Heninel-Croisilles Road Cemetery (France, Pas de Calais)

Heninel-Croisilles Road Cemtery - 1
Photo : Chris Cosgrove (<trainscpc@aol.com>)

The 21st Division captured Heninel on 12 April 1917 and advanced eastwards on the two following days. The 33rd Division then took over the attack. These two divisions are largely represented in the cemetery. In April 1918 this ground was lost, and the eleven German graves in Plot I, Rows D and E, were made when the cemetery was in German hands. After the Armistice, graves were brought in from a wide area round Heninel. The cemetery now contains 307 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 104 of them unidentified.

1 soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is buried in this cemetery.

We are extremely grateful to Chris Cosgrove (<trainscpc@aol.com>) who has generously provided the photographs of the cemetery.

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Captain William Brownlie, MC Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to 13th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Brother of John D. Brownlie, of 117, Wool Exchange, London, E.C.2. Killed 25 March 1918. Aged 36. Photograph of Captain Brownlie's headstone kindly provided by Mick McCann.

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