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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Hibers Trench Cemetery, Wancourt (France) |
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Hibers
Trench Cemetery, Wancourt - 1
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)
Wancourt was captured by Commonwealth troops on 12 April 1917, and Wancourt Tower was taken by the 50th (Northumbrian) Division on the 13th. At the end of March 1918, the village and its neighbourhood were lost during the German advance, but they were recovered by the Canadian Corps on the following 26 August.
Hibers Trench Cemetery was made in April 1917, by the 50th Division Burial Officer and used until the following October. Three Canadian graves were added in August and September 1918, and two further burials in the summer of 1919. Hibers Trench Cemetery contains 136 burials and commemorations of the First World War. Six of the burials are unidentified and there are special memorials to two casualties who are known to be buried among them.
10 identified soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment are buried in this cemetery. All of these soldiers lost their lives on 21 April 1917, and all but one were from the 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Poignantly, all ten graves are in a line together.
We are extremely grateful to Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com> for photographing the cemetery and headstones.
For a larger sized imnage of a headstone which opens in a new widow, select the thumbnail image (below).
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Private Henry Fawcett, 201509. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 21 April 1917. Enlisted Richmond (Yorks) |
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Private Robert William Fowler.
201498. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mrs. Ada Fowler, of 157, Parliament Rd., Middlesbrough. Killed 21 April 1917. Aged 21. Enlisted Middlesbrough. "SLEEP ON DEAR SON
AND TAKE THY REST MOTHER" |
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Lance Serjeant Maynard Hartley.
200997. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 21 April 1917. Enlisted Northallerton. |
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Private James Kirk. 203281.
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Only son of George and Amelia Kirk, of Gimingham, North Walsham, Norfolk. Killed 21 April 1917. Aged 21. Enlisted Norwich, Resided Gimingham (Near Walsham - Norfolk). "YE ARE DEAD
AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD" |
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Private David Robinson Markham,
202957. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 21 April 1917. Enlisted Richmond (Yorks), Resided Easington (Loftus, Yorks). |
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Private Walter Rhodes, 20195.
4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 21 April 1917. Born Knaresborough, Enlisted Catterick (Yorks). |
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Serjeant Fred Shore, MM, 200344.
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 21 April 1917. Born Stokesley, Enlisted Stokesley |
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Private James Edward Spencer,
235187. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. KIlled 21 April 1917. Born Burnley, Enlisted Burnley. |
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Private Richard Arthur Warwick,
202268. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 5117 Northants Regiment. KIlled 21 April 1917. Born Wellingborough, Enlisted Wellingborough )Northants). |
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2nd Lieutenant Ernest Cecil Welbourne.
5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. A. H. and Mrs. M. A. Welbourne, of 54, Middle St., Driffield. KIlled 21 April 1917. Aged 22. "MINE EYES
HAVE SEEN THY SALVATION O DEATH WHERE IS THY STING?" |
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Hibers Trench Cemetery, Wancourt, - Showing the line of Yorkshire Regiment
Graves
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)
Hibers
Trench Cemetery, Wancourt - 2
Photo : Commonwealth
War Graves Commission