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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Highland Cemetery, Le Cateau ( France, Nord) |
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Highland Cemetery, Le Cateau (1)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)
After the Battle of Le Cateau (26 August 1914), the town remained in German hands until the middle of October 1918.
The original cemetery (Plot III) was made by the 50th (Northumbrian) Division after the fighting of 17 October; the name of Highland Cemetery is suggestive at once of the comparatively high ground on which it stands and of the 32 graves of the 13th (Scottish Horse) Battalion, Black Watch, found in this plot. The cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when graves of October and November 1918 were brought in from isolated positions on all sides of Le Cateau.
Highland Cemetery now contains 624 First World War burials.
(There is another "Highland Cemetery" at Roclincourt in the Pas de Calais, France.)
We are extremely grateful to Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) who has generously provided the photographs on this page.
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Private Percy Trevor
Dodson. 38462. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Matthew Moore Dodson and Martha Jane Dodson, of 91, Cambridge Rd., Middlesbrough. Died 10 October 1918. Aged 21. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough. "DEARLY LOVED SON OF
M. M. and M. J. DODSON MIDDLESBROUGH IN PEACE" |
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Private James Lingley.
48002. 9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 5/809 1st T R Battn. Son of Samuel Lingley, of 24, Montgomery St., Bradford, Yorks. Killed 10 October 1918. Aged 20. Born Bradford, Enlisted Bradford. "A LOVING SON, A BROTHER KIND
A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY LEFT BEHIND." |
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Serjeant James Frederick
Snelling. 33113. 9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 1267 Norfolk Regt. Killed 10 October 1918. Born Lakenham (Norfolk), Enlisted Norwich. |
Highland Cemetery, Le Cateau (2)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)